Blood-red longhorn beetle
The blood-red longhorn beetle is a slim beetle with long feelers and a black head. The girl has reddish brown wing cases and the boy has yellowish brown ones. In summer you can find it sitting on flowers in mountain forests.
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Fun facts
The boy and the girl have different colours, so they look like two different beetles.
It takes two to three years to grow from egg to grown-up.
Its babies grow mostly in dead wood of Scots pine and Norway spruce.
The grown-ups can be seen from May to August.
Most asked questions about Blood-red longhorn beetle
?What does the blood-red longhorn beetle eat?
Grown-ups visit flowers for nectar and pollen. The babies eat dead pine and spruce wood.
?Is the blood-red longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anastrangalia sanguinolenta
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Anastrangalia sanguinolenta (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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