White-striped longhorn beetle
Batocera lineolata
The white-striped longhorn beetle is a longhorn beetle from East and South Asia. Longhorn beetles have very long feelers on their heads. It spends its life on trees, and its babies grow up inside the wood.
Lives in
China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Myanmar and India, in forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It only harms trees.
What does it eat?
Both the grown-ups and the larvae bore into tree bark. The larvae chew tunnels in the 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)
White-striped 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
Foresters do not like it. When it bores into a tree, the tree can wilt and sometimes even die.
2
Its tunnels damage the tubes that carry water and food inside the tree.
3
In 2026 scientists read its whole DNA, the recipe book of its body. They found about 12,000 genes.
you asked
Most asked questions about White-striped longhorn beetle
?Is the white-striped longhorn beetle dangerous?
Not to people. But it can badly hurt trees, so foresters see it as a pest.
?Where does the white-striped longhorn beetle live?
In China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Myanmar and India.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Batocera lineolata
- Named by
- Chevrolat, 1852
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- White-striped longhorned beetle
Where the facts come from
- Batocera lineolata (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 kumo from unknown. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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