Fig tree borer
The fig tree borer is a longhorn beetle with long feelers. It is greyish or dark brown with orange-brown spots, and three white or yellow stripes run down its body.
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It can be up to 3.5 centimetres long, and the males are usually a bit bigger than the females.
Its colours change a lot from place to place across its big home range.
Besides fig trees, it also lives on mulberry, willow and alder trees.
It belongs to a group called flat-faced longhorn beetles.
Most asked questions about Fig tree borer
?Is the fig tree borer dangerous?
No, it is harmless to people. Just watch it and let it be.
?What does the fig tree borer eat?
It lives on trees such as figs, mulberries, willows and alders.
?How big is the fig tree borer?
About 2 to 3.5 centimetres long. Males are often a bit bigger than females.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoptychodes trilineatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Neoptychodes trilineatus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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