Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle
Pogonocherus hispidus
The lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle is a tiny beetle, only 4 to 6 millimetres long. Like other longhorn beetles, it has long feelers. It lives in Europe and North Africa.
Lives in
Europe and North Africa, on bushes and ivy
Length
4 to 6 mm (0.16 to 0.24 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a tiny beetle that minds its own business.
What does it eat?
It feeds on bushes and climbing plants such as hazel, holly, ivy, dogwood and spindle.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 18 seconds
How big is Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle about 0.2 km/h (0.12 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It was described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, a famous scientist who gave names to lots of plants and animals.
2
At first Linnaeus put it in a different group of longhorn beetles.
3
Several kinds of tiny wasps use it to raise their own young.
you asked
Most asked questions about Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle
?How big is the lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle?
Only 4 to 6 millimetres long, about the size of a grain of rice.
?What does the lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle eat?
It feeds on plants such as hazel, holly, ivy, dogwood and spindle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pogonocherus hispidus
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Pogonocherus hispidus (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. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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