Red-femured milkweed borer
Tetraopes femoratus
The red-femured milkweed borer is a longhorn beetle that lives on milkweed plants. Its name tells you it has red thighs on its legs. It lives in the United States and Mexico.
Lives in
The United States and Mexico, where milkweeds grow
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like its close relatives, it feeds on milkweed plants.
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)
Red-femured milkweed borer about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It eats at least eight different kinds of milkweed.
2
It belongs to the longhorn beetles, which have long feelers.
3
Femur is the word for the thigh part of a leg, so its name means red-thighed.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red-femured milkweed borer
?What does the red-femured milkweed borer eat?
Milkweed plants, at least eight different kinds.
?Where does the red-femured milkweed borer live?
In the United States and Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tetraopes femoratus
- Named by
- LeConte, 1847
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tetraopes femoratus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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