Bug card No. 0418 of 4,939

Black pine sawyer beetle

Monochamus galloprovincialis

Eats: Wood BeetlesForests and woods6 legs

The black pine sawyer beetle is a dark longhorn beetle with very long feelers. It lives in pine forests. It is a strong flier that can travel far.

Lives in

Europe and the Caucasus, and also the Canary Islands, in pine forests

Top speed

about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)

On foot, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless to people. It does not sting.

What does it eat?

Its larvae grow up inside pine trees and eat the wood.

A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)

A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)

Black pine sawyer beetle about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)

A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

cool stuff

Fun facts

In tests, the beetles flew about 16 kilometres during their life.

The male makes a special smell that calls females to him.

It can carry a tiny worm that makes pine trees sick.

It was first described in 1795.

you asked

?Is the pine sawyer beetle dangerous?

It is harmless to people, but it can spread a tiny worm that harms pine trees.

?How far can a pine sawyer beetle fly?

In tests, about 16 kilometres over its whole life.

Monochamus galloprovincialis (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 Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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