Would you feed this to your chicken?

[JadeFarms]

Chickens LOVE grubs!!! Will fight for em!

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Whateve it is, it could be what killed the tree. What kind of tree was it?

I think its a basswood. I'm not the best at identifying these type of things

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

I came across this.

Yep! Flat head borers There are Flat Head Borers that attack fruit trees, oaks, pines, etc. all over. The get into a dead log that still has bark and feed under the bark until they get of size. Then they turn and start drilling int the log. You can hear them in a wood pile from 50 or 60 feet away. The gnawing takes them about 6 inches deep where they turn the chamber in a "J" shape and pupate. Behind them is left an oval hole that is filled with "frass". The frass is a tooth pick looking shavings that fills the hole behind them.

When they leave the hole as a beetle, the hole will be made round and the frass will disappear.

The Southern Pine Sawyer is one of the Flat Head Borers. He matures into a grey beetle with long antennae that curl back over his head. You will see them a lot when you work around a pine log yard.

Two that attack oaks are the Red Oak Borer and the White Oak Borer. Both are Round head borers but do pretty much the same damage as a flat head borer. Their entry holes are usually round and filled with frass.

I'll go out there and take a picture of the hole in the tree. We ran out of gas physically and in the saw so its not all cut up yet

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

This is the stump. You can see it's a rather large hole. It goes several feet up the tree. The diameter of the tree is roughly 18 inches and the height is around 45 feet . Heres the hole from the cut piece:

Here's what is left:

Several of the limbs were rotted and dead. It was broken at the top. Here's the leaves for identification. They are on our burn pile:

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

I came across this.

Yep! Flat head borers There are Flat Head Borers that attack fruit trees, oaks, pines, etc. all over. The get into a dead log that still has bark and feed under the bark until they get of size. Then they turn and start drilling int the log. You can hear them in a wood pile from 50 or 60 feet away. The gnawing takes them about 6 inches deep where they turn the chamber in a "J" shape and pupate. Behind them is left an oval hole that is filled with "frass". The frass is a tooth pick looking shavings that fills the hole behind them.

When they leave the hole as a beetle, the hole will be made round and the frass will disappear.

The Southern Pine Sawyer is one of the Flat Head Borers. He matures into a grey beetle with long antennae that curl back over his head. You will see them a lot when you work around a pine log yard.

Two that attack oaks are the Red Oak Borer and the White Oak Borer. Both are Round head borers but do pretty much the same damage as a flat head borer. Their entry holes are usually round and filled with frass.

I looked up a flat head borer and it isnt that. We have had them before though.

 

[cmom]

Maybe Round head borers.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

It almost looks like its in the scarabaeidae family. But its awful big to be a japanese beetle or a june bug...

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Wow!
As far as feeding the grubs to the chickens (though that already happened, so my comment is moot at this point), I would offer them to them and let the chickens vote with their beaks. In another thread it was mentioned that sometimes chix will eat worms and sometimes won't. I guess they know what's good and what isn't.

 

[aart]

It almost looks like its in the scarabaeidae family. But its awful big to be a japanese beetle or a june bug...

They/we are waffling between Lucanus and Osmoderma.
An accurate measurement of the tool would help narrow it down,
I know you have a tape measure

 

[cmom]

Basswood trees have heart shaped leaves. This is what I found. I hope it helps to identify your grub. Good luck...
The basswood tree (Tilia americana), also known as the American linden tree,
Borers - Adult linden borers are yellowish brown or olive colored beetles. About 3/4 inch long, they have three dark spots on each wing cover. They emerge late in summer and feed on leaves and tender shoots before laying eggs in the bark. Linden borer larvae are slender, white, worms about 1 inch long. After they hatch, they tunnel into the wood, pushing sawdust out of the entrance hole as they progress. They make cavities in trunks and branches causing them to break off. These tunnels give disease and decay bacteria access to the tree. Other borers that attack lindens are the flat-headed apple tree borer and the brown wood borer. About the only way to control borers once they have begun to burrow is to dig them out of their tunnels with a flexible wire or stuff their tunnels with a nicotine paste.