Lined longhorn beetle
Analeptura lineola
The lined longhorn is a beetle with long feelers that loves flowers. The grown-ups visit flowers to drink sweet nectar. Its babies grow up inside old, rotting wood.
Lives in
Eastern United States and Canada, in woods and on flowers
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a gentle flower visitor.
What does it eat?
The grown-up beetles drink nectar from flowers. The larvae chew their way through rotting wood.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Lined longhorn beetle about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its larvae dig tunnels into the bottom of old, rotting trees and bushes.
2
They grow up in many kinds of wood, such as maple, cherry, hazel and chestnut.
3
It belongs to the longhorn beetles, which are named after their long feelers.
you asked
Most asked questions about Lined longhorn beetle
?What does the lined longhorn beetle eat?
The grown-ups drink flower nectar. The larvae eat rotting wood.
?Where does the lined longhorn beetle live?
In the eastern United States and Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Analeptura lineola
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Lined longhorn
Where the facts come from
- Analeptura lineola (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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