Tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle
The tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle is a slim little beetle with long feelers. Its head and the front of its back are dark, and the rest of its wing cases are yellowish brown. In summer it sits on white flower heads in the woods.
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Fun facts
It lives in Estonia too, so you might spot one on a forest walk.
It takes two years to grow from an egg into a beetle.
The beetles fly from April to July, and July is the best month to see them.
In the southern Alps it lives high up in the mountains.
Most asked questions about Tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle
?Where does the tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle live?
In forests in Europe and Asia, from the lowlands up to the hills, and in Estonia too.
?Is the tobacco-coloured longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small, harmless beetle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Alosterna tabacicolor
- Named by
- DeGeer, 1775
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Alosterna tabacicolor (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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