Western sculptured pine borer
Chalcophora angulicollis
The western sculptured pine borer is a metallic wood-boring beetle from western North America. Its dark brown shell is bumpy, like it has been carved, and it shimmers in the light.
Lives in
Western North America, in dry pine forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting and does not bite people.
What does it eat?
Like its relatives, its larvae tunnel through and eat the wood of pine trees.
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)
Western sculptured pine borer about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the jewel beetles, a family famous for their shiny, metallic colours.
2
It lives in dry parts of western North America.
3
Its shell has a shimmery colour that changes as the light moves.
you asked
Most asked questions about Western sculptured pine borer
?What does the western sculptured pine borer eat?
Its larvae live inside pine trees and eat the wood.
?Is the western sculptured pine borer dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chalcophora angulicollis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Buprestidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Sculptured pine borer
Where the facts come from
- Chalcophora angulicollis (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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