Red-shouldered pine borer
Stictoleptura canadensis
The red-shouldered pine borer is a longhorn beetle, a beetle with long feelers. As its name says, it has red patches on its shoulders. Its larvae grow up inside dead wood.
Lives in
Canada and the United States, in forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people.
What does it eat?
Its larvae eat dead or rotting wood. The grown-up beetles visit flowers.
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-shouldered pine borer about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its larvae can spend one to three years eating wood before they become beetles.
2
Once it is a grown-up beetle, it lives only a short time, from a few days to a couple of months.
3
By eating dead wood, its larvae help break down old trees in the forest.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red-shouldered pine borer
?What does the red-shouldered pine borer eat?
Its larvae eat dead wood, and the beetles visit flowers.
?Is the red-shouldered pine borer dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stictoleptura canadensis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Stictoleptura canadensis (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 Ambassador Neelix. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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