Velvet longhorned beetle
Trichoferus campestris
The velvet longhorned beetle is a beetle with long feelers. It comes from eastern Asia, but it has travelled far and now lives in North America and in many countries of Europe too.
Lives in
First from eastern Asia, now also in North America and much of Europe
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It cannot sting.
What does it eat?
Like other longhorn beetles, its grubs live inside wood and chew tunnels through it.
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)
Velvet longhorned 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 home is China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia and eastern Russia.
2
In North America it was first found in 1997 in New Jersey, and now it lives in the United States and Canada.
3
It has reached more than 20 countries in Europe, from the UK and Sweden to Latvia and Lithuania.
you asked
Most asked questions about Velvet longhorned beetle
?Where does the velvet longhorned beetle come from?
It comes from eastern Asia, but people have carried it to North America and Europe.
?Is the velvet longhorned beetle dangerous?
No, it is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichoferus campestris
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia, North America, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Trichoferus campestris (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 This image is created by user Lo Troisfontaine at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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