White-spotted longicorn beetle
The white-spotted longicorn beetle is a black beetle covered in white or yellow spots. Like all longhorn beetles, it has very long feelers. It lives in East Asia, where it is famous for chewing into fruit trees.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs in little cuts in the bark, and the babies tunnel into the trunk from there.
As the babies grow inside the tree, they damage the parts that carry water and food, and the tree can get sick or even die.
Farmers in East Asia see it as a big pest, especially in citrus orchards.
Its spots can be white or yellow.
Most asked questions about White-spotted longicorn beetle
?Is the white-spotted longicorn beetle dangerous?
Not to people. It is a pest because its babies damage fruit trees.
?What does the white-spotted longicorn beetle eat?
Its babies eat the wood inside tree trunks, especially citrus trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anoplophora macularia
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Anoplophora macularia (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 å¤ę·ē². CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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