Common grammoptera
The common grammoptera is a tiny longhorn beetle, dark brown or black with long yellow red feelers. The feelers are almost as long as its whole body. In spring you can find it sitting on white flowers like hawthorn and cow parsley.
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Fun facts
Its scientific name ruficornis means with red feelers.
The girls are longer and wider than the boys.
Its back is covered in silky little hairs.
The grown-ups come out from the end of May to the middle of June.
Most asked questions about Common grammoptera
?What does the common grammoptera look like?
It is a small dark beetle, 3 to 7 millimetres long, with long yellow red feelers.
?Where can I find the common grammoptera?
On white flowers like hawthorn and cow parsley near leafy woods in late spring.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Grammoptera ruficornis
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1781
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Grammoptera ruficornis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
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