Noisy Bug: metallic wood boring beetle

5668  This beetle picture is being sent to you for a friend of mine.   Can anyone tell me what kind of bug this? It is noisy when it flies and I believe that it bites rather like a horse fly or deer fly. That is a 1X4 that it is on in this picture, just for size reference.  The picture was taken in Armstrong, BC.  Thank you,   Lyndon

This is a metallic wood-boring beetle (Coleoptera: Buprestidae); it looks like something in the genus Chalcophora (see http://tinyurl.com/z4t28nf for an example). Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.