Hermit flower beetle
Osmoderma eremicola
The hermit flower beetle is a big, shiny, dark brown scarab beetle. It lives in woods, close to old tree trunks. People say it gives off a smell like leather.
Lives in
North America, from southern Canada through the Midwest and east to Georgia, in woods
Length
2.1 to 3.2 cm (0.83 to 1.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people, so you can watch it up close.
What does it eat?
Its larvae grow up inside old hollow trees, feeding on soft rotting wood.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.9 seconds
How big is Hermit flower beetle compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Hermit flower beetle about 0.73 km/h (0.45 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It can be up to about 3 centimetres long, which is big for a beetle.
2
Its smell is described as leathery.
3
It belongs to the scarab family, together with June beetles and dung beetles.
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Most asked questions about Hermit flower beetle
?How big is the hermit flower beetle?
It is about 21 to 32 millimetres long.
?Where does the hermit beetle live?
In wooded areas of North America, around the trunks of trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Osmoderma eremicola
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Hermit beetle
Where the facts come from
- Osmoderma eremicola (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 Andrew C. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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