Grape wood borer
Chlorophorus varius
Name means: “its Latin name means changeable, because its colours and markings vary a lot”
The grape wood borer is a longhorn beetle dressed up like a wasp. It is covered in yellow-green fuzz with black bands and a black C-shaped mark. The wasp costume fools birds, but it cannot sting.
Lives in
Most of Europe except the north, Turkey, Iran and the Near East
Length
0.8 to 1.4 cm (0.31 to 0.55 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It only looks like a wasp and has no sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups eat pollen and nectar, especially from flowers like wild carrot. The young grow up inside dead wood.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 12 seconds
How big is Grape wood borer compared to YOU?
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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)
Grape wood borer about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its young live inside dead branches of grapevines, maples, oaks, apple trees and other trees.
2
Growing from egg to beetle takes 2 to 3 years.
3
The male has longer feelers than the female.
4
You can see the beetles from May to September on sunny meadows and woodland edges.
you asked
Most asked questions about Grape wood borer
?Can the grape wood borer sting?
No. It looks like a wasp, but it is a beetle with no sting.
?How big is the grape wood borer?
It is 8 to 14 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlorophorus varius
- Named by
- O. F. Müller, 1766
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Chlorophorus varius (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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