Red-legged buprestis beetle
Buprestis rufipes
Name means: “red legs”
The red-legged buprestis is a shiny metallic green beetle with golden yellow bands on its back. Its legs are reddish, just like its name says. It is a jewel beetle that lives in old trees.
Lives in
The southern and eastern United States, in leafy forests
Length
1.8 to 2.5 cm (0.71 to 0.98 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It lives in dead or dying wood of trees like maple, beech, oak and elm.
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 5.5 seconds
How big is Red-legged buprestis 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)
Red-legged buprestis beetle about 0.65 km/h (0.4 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Even its head and its tummy shine metallic green.
2
Scientists still know very little about how it lives.
3
It has been found on maple, beech, blackgum, oak and elm trees.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red-legged buprestis beetle
?How big is the red-legged buprestis beetle?
About 1.8 to 2.5 centimetres long.
?Where does the red-legged buprestis live?
In leafy forests of the southern and eastern United States, in dead or dying trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Buprestis rufipes
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Buprestidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Red-legged buprestis
Where the facts come from
- Buprestis rufipes (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 Lacy L. Hyche, Auburn University, Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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