Banded hickory borer
Knulliana cincta
The banded hickory borer is a longhorn beetle with long feelers and sharp little spines on its legs, its back and the tips of its wing covers. It lives on hickory and oak trees. Its babies tunnel inside the wood.
Lives in
The eastern half of North America, including Mexico and the Bahamas
Length
1.5 to 3.5 cm (0.59 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It can only hurt trees.
What does it eat?
Its larvae first eat the soft layer under the bark, then dig deeper into the wood of hickory and oak trees.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 6 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 7.7 seconds
How big is Banded hickory borer 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)
Banded hickory borer about 0.47 km/h (0.29 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is the only species in its group, so it has no close brothers or sisters.
2
The mother lays her eggs in cracks in the bark or right into the wood.
3
One kind of it even lives near the Sonoran Desert in the southwest.
4
Its babies can damage the trees they live in.
you asked
Most asked questions about Banded hickory borer
?What does the banded hickory borer eat?
Its larvae eat the wood of hickory and oak trees.
?How big is the banded hickory borer?
From about 1.5 to 3.5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Knulliana cincta
- Named by
- Drury
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Knulliana (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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