Pilose checkered beetle
Chariessa pilosa
The pilose checkered beetle is a small hunting beetle. It lives inside the tunnels that other beetles chew into wood. There it hunts those wood-boring beetles.
Lives in
Europe, northern Asia and North America, in woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite people or sting.
What does it eat?
It hunts beetles that bore tunnels into wood.
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)
Pilose checkered beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It moves into the tunnels made by wood-boring beetles and hunts them there.
2
It even turns from a baby into a grown-up beetle inside those tunnels.
3
It lives on three continents: Europe, Asia and North America.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pilose checkered beetle
?What does the pilose checkered beetle eat?
It hunts beetles that bore tunnels into wood.
?Is the pilose checkered beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chariessa pilosa
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cleridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cleridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Chariessa pilosa (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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