Asian longhorn beetle
The Asian longhorn beetle is a big, shiny black beetle covered in white spots, like a night sky full of stars. Its feelers are striped black and white and can be twice as long as its body. Its larvae live inside trees and chew tunnels through the wood.
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Fun facts
It has about 20 white spots on each wing case.
The mother chews a small pit in the bark and lays one egg in each pit.
One larva can eat about a litre of wood in its life.
It was first found in North America in 1996, in Brooklyn, New York.
Its legs are a pretty whitish blue at the top.
Most asked questions about Asian longhorn beetle
?Why is the Asian longhorn beetle a problem?
Its larvae tunnel inside healthy trees like maples and can kill them, so people work hard to stop it spreading.
?How big is the Asian longhorn beetle?
Its body is about 1.7 to 3.9 centimetres long, and its feelers can be even longer.
?Can the Asian longhorn beetle fly?
Yes, but usually only short distances, because it is big and heavy.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anoplophora glabripennis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia, North America, Europe
- Also known as
- Starry sky beetle, Sky beetle, ALB
Where the facts come from
- Asian long-horned beetle (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 US gov. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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