Carolina pine sawyer
The Carolina pine sawyer is a long-horned beetle that lives in pine forests. The male's feelers are about twice as long as its whole body. Its babies grow up inside dead pine trees.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
The mother chews a little hole in the bark of a dead pine and lays one to three eggs in it.
Tiny worms called nematodes can ride inside the beetle and make pine trees sick with a disease called pine wilt.
In 2022 scientists caught one in Beijing, China, far from its home.
In the southeastern United States the beetles are busy from May to at least September.
Most asked questions about Carolina pine sawyer
?Why is it called a pine sawyer?
Because its babies chew their way through pine wood.
?Is the Carolina pine sawyer harmful?
It is not dangerous to people, but it can spread a disease that harms pine trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Monochamus carolinensis
- Named by
- Olivier, 1792
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Monochamus carolinensis (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 Doctorkilmer. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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