Red-brown longhorn beetle
The red-brown longhorn beetle is a slim beetle with long feelers. The females are reddish brown or orange all over, while the males have a black head and paler, yellowish brown wing cases. You often see them sitting on flowers in summer.
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Fun facts
Its larvae can digest wood thanks to tiny helpers called yeasts living in their tummies.
Boys and girls look so different that you might think they were two kinds of beetle.
It takes two or three years to grow from egg to beetle.
You can find the grown-ups from May to September, mostly in July and August.
The larvae also need food made by fungi in the wood to grow up.
Most asked questions about Red-brown longhorn beetle
?What does the red-brown longhorn beetle eat?
Grown-ups eat nectar and pollen from flowers. The larvae eat dead conifer wood.
?How big is the red-brown longhorn beetle?
It is about 1 to 2 centimetres long.
?When can you see red-brown longhorn beetles?
From May to September, most often in July and August, on flowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stictoleptura rubra
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Stictoleptura rubra (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Hedwig Storch. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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