Hornet beetle
Leptura aurulenta
The hornet beetle is a longhorn beetle, a beetle with long feelers. Its name tells you it looks a little like a hornet, but it is a harmless beetle.
Lives in
Europe, North Africa and Turkey
Length
1.2 to 2.5 cm (0.47 to 0.98 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It only looks a bit like a hornet. Beetles have no sting.
What does it eat?
Longhorn beetles like this one grow up inside dead wood, where the larva chews tunnels.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 4 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 9 seconds
How big is Hornet 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)
Hornet beetle about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives across most of Europe, but not in the far north.
2
It is also found in Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa, and in Turkey.
3
Longhorn beetles have feelers that can be as long as their bodies, or even longer.
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Most asked questions about Hornet beetle
?Does the hornet beetle sting?
No. It only looks a little like a hornet. Beetles have no sting.
?How big is the hornet beetle?
It is 12 to 25 millimetres long, about as long as your thumbnail or a bit longer.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptura aurulenta
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1792
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Leptura aurulenta (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 Siga. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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