Slender flower longhorn beetle
Strangalia famelica
The slender flower longhorn beetle is a thin beetle from North America. Like all longhorn beetles, it has long feelers. Flower longhorns like it are often seen sitting on flowers.
Lives in
North America, on flowers
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups visit flowers for pollen and nectar. The babies grow up inside 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)
Slender flower longhorn beetle about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the longhorn beetles, a big family named after their very long feelers.
2
It is a flower longhorn, one of the longhorn beetles that visit flowers as grown-ups.
3
Scientists split it into two subspecies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Slender flower longhorn beetle
?Is the flower longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It does not sting and is harmless.
?Where does the slender flower longhorn beetle live?
In North America, where it is often seen on flowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Strangalia famelica
- Named by
- Newman, 1841
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Strangalia famelica (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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