Fan-shaped fire-colored beetle
Neopyrochroa flabellata
The fan-shaped fire-colored beetle belongs to the fire-coloured beetles, a family of beetles often dressed in bright red and orange. It lives in the eastern United States. Its larvae grow up hidden inside dead wood.
Lives in
The eastern United States, in woods with dead trees
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is not known to hurt people.
What does it eat?
Its larvae live in dead wood and eat the fungus growing there, not the wood itself. The adults hardly eat at all.
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)
Fan-shaped fire-colored beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its larvae live inside dead wood, but they eat fungus instead of wood.
2
The grown-up beetles very rarely eat.
3
It is drawn to a special chemical called cantharidin, which some other beetles make.
you asked
Most asked questions about Fan-shaped fire-colored beetle
?What does the fan-shaped fire-colored beetle eat?
Its larvae eat fungus in dead wood. The adults rarely eat.
?Where does the fan-shaped fire-colored beetle live?
In the eastern United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neopyrochroa flabellata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Pyrochroidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Pyrochroidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Neopyrochroa flabellata (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 skitterbug. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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