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A whitespotted sawyer crawls on a bush Tuesday, June 24, 2008. The wood-boring , long-horn beetle seem to be invading Fairbanks. “They do bite and they bite hard,” Diane Claassen, pest management technician at the Alaska Cooperative Extension Service said, speaking from experience. “Almost everyone who has called me says they’ve been bitten or they know somebody that has been bitten."