Spotted pine sawyer
Monochamus clamator
The spotted pine sawyer is a longhorn beetle from North America. Like its relatives, it has very long feelers on its head. Its name tells you where to look for it: on pine trees.
Lives in
North America, in pine forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. Just watch it and let it walk on.
What does it eat?
Like other pine sawyers, its young grow up inside the wood of pine trees and eat it.
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)
Spotted pine sawyer 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 of beetles with very long feelers.
2
A scientist called John Lawrence LeConte gave it its name in 1852.
3
There are five slightly different kinds of it, called subspecies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Spotted pine sawyer
?What is a pine sawyer?
A longhorn beetle whose young grow up inside pine trees.
?Is the spotted pine sawyer dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Monochamus clamator
- Named by
- LeConte, 1852
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Monochamus clamator (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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