Yellow velvet beetle
Lepturobosca chrysocoma
The yellow velvet beetle is a longhorn beetle covered in a thick coat of golden hairs. It looks soft like velvet. In summer it visits flowers and helps them by carrying pollen.
Lives in
Canada from coast to coast and up to the Yukon, and Montana and Wyoming in the United States
Length
1 to 2 cm (0.39 to 0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Adults feed on flowers in summer. The larvae eat rotting wood of trees like spruce and poplar.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 10 seconds
How big is Yellow velvet beetle compared to YOU?
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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 velvet beetle about 0.36 km/h (0.22 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Pollen sticks to its hairy coat and gets carried to other flowers, which helps plants make seeds.
2
Its larvae grow up in rotting wood of black spruce and poplar trees.
3
It lives all across Canada, even in the far north.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow velvet beetle
?Is the yellow velvet beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless, fuzzy beetle that visits flowers.
?How big is the yellow velvet beetle?
About 10 to 20 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lepturobosca chrysocoma
- Named by
- Kirby, 1837
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Golden flower longhorn beetle, Golden-haired flower longhorn
Where the facts come from
- Lepturobosca chrysocoma (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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