@Rob_le_Pest hello! We’ve had chewing over our bed for a couple of years, we treated with xylophene and knew we just had to wait it out. Yesterday this dropped dead into DHs bedside table. Is it a Capricorn finally munched through the killer layer???
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I didn’t think the adults ate wood and the larvae only eat living wood not dead.
Oh, and they are protected.
I’ll give you a B+ for that! 
Point 1. Yes correct.
Point 2 (me being pedantic) all wood in the house is technically dead, capricornes are happy eating untreated ‘house wood’
Point 3 (thick foggy/grey/pedantic with a dash of sauf-que) Yes, there are many subspecies of capricorne aka longhorn beetle, the majority are protected. The sauf-que comes with the right to bear arms/bear arms/bare arms. One can defend, with reasonable force, one’s château.
Point 4, tip of the day; Many critters, including longhorn beetles are carried into the house by humans and their fire logs. That’s why one should hever have more than 2 fires’ worth of wood in the house. Barbecued woodlouse anyone?!
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Praise indeed 
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Woohoo, it certainly looks longhorn beetleish to me!
But there are many varieties. Have a look up at the wood and see if there is a fresh hole that it could have dropped out of. Also see if there are others falling to theis demise in the next few weeks.
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Thanks Rob!
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