Texas milkweed beetle
The Texas milkweed beetle is a longhorn beetle that lives on milkweed plants. It is found on prairies in the United States and northern Mexico. It needs milkweed for its whole life.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs in grass stems. When the babies hatch, they drop down into the soil.
The grown-ups come out in early May and look for mates through June.
It lives in two main groups far apart: one in Texas and Oklahoma, and one in Mississippi and Alabama.
It likes grassland with chalky soil.
It is listed as Near Threatened because its prairie homes are disappearing.
Most asked questions about Texas milkweed beetle
?What does the Texas milkweed beetle eat?
Milkweed. The grown-ups eat the plant and the babies eat its roots.
?Where does the Texas milkweed beetle live?
On prairies in the southern United States and northern Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tetraopes texanus
- Named by
- Horn, 1878
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tetraopes texanus (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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