Bimaculate longhorn beetle
Molorchus bimaculatus
The bimaculate longhorn beetle is a small longhorn beetle from North America. Its babies grow up inside the wood of trees and vines. The grown-up beetles visit flowers to feed.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
The larvae eat the wood of hardwood trees and vines like grapevines. The adults feed on flowers.
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)
Bimaculate 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
Its larvae live in the woody parts of trees and climbing vines such as grapevines.
2
The adults visit the flowers of plants like sumac, cherry, apple and dogwood.
3
It was first described in 1824 by the American scientist Thomas Say.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bimaculate longhorn beetle
?What does the bimaculate longhorn beetle eat?
Its larvae eat wood inside trees and vines. The adults feed on flowers.
?Is the bimaculate longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small beetle and harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Molorchus bimaculatus
- Named by
- Say, 1824
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Molorchus bimaculatus (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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