Yellow-horned flower longhorn beetle
Strangalia luteicornis
The yellow-horned flower longhorn beetle is a slim beetle from North America. Like all longhorn beetles, it has long feelers on its head. It belongs to the flower longhorns, beetles that like to spend time on flowers.
Lives in
North America, on flowers
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a quiet flower visitor that you can watch up close.
What does it eat?
The female has been seen eating pollen, the yellow flower dust, from a plant called lizard's tail.
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)
Yellow-horned 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
Scientists have seen these beetles meeting and mating on the flowers of wild hydrangea and lizard's tail.
2
The female eats pollen while she sits on the lizard's tail flowers.
3
It belongs to a very big beetle family called longhorn beetles, which are famous for their long feelers.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-horned flower longhorn beetle
?What does the yellow-horned flower longhorn beetle eat?
The female has been seen eating pollen from lizard's tail flowers.
?Is the yellow-horned flower longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle that likes to sit on flowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Strangalia luteicornis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Strangalia luteicornis (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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