Twig pruner
Anelaphus villosus
The twig pruner is a longhorn beetle, which means it has very long feelers on its head. It lives among the trees of eastern North America. Its babies grow up hidden inside tree twigs.
Lives in
The eastern half of the United States and southeastern Canada
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting, and it is not interested in people.
What does it eat?
Its larvae live inside tree twigs and chew the wood from the inside.
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)
Twig pruner about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists once thought it was two different kinds of beetle, but then found out both were the same one.
2
Longhorn beetles like it can wave their long feelers around to smell and feel what is near them.
3
It belongs to the longhorn beetle family, which has thousands of members all over the world.
you asked
Most asked questions about Twig pruner
?What does the twig pruner eat?
Its larvae chew wood inside tree twigs.
?Where does the twig pruner live?
In the eastern half of the United States and in southeastern Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anelaphus villosus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anelaphus villosus (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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