Red oak borer
The red oak borer is a longhorn beetle from North America. It is a faded mix of tan, brown and red. Its babies live inside oak trees and chew tunnels through the wood.
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The male's antennae are twice as long as his body. The female's are about as long as hers.
Its eggs are cream-coloured and only 2 to 3 millimetres long.
A big larva can grow 4 to 5 centimetres long, longer than the adult beetle.
You can spot where it lives by tiny crescent-shaped holes in the bark, and big round holes where adults crawled out.
Most asked questions about Red oak borer
?What does the red oak borer eat?
Its larvae eat the wood inside oak trees.
?How big is the red oak borer?
The adult beetle is about 2 to 3 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Enaphalodes rufulus
- Named by
- Haldeman, 1847
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Enaphalodes rufulus (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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