Rust pine borer
The rust pine borer is a long, flat, dark brown beetle with long feelers. It is a night beetle that hides under tree bark during the day. Its babies grow up inside pine and spruce trees.
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Fun facts
At night it flies towards lights, so it sometimes visits lamps near forests.
One mother beetle can lay up to 800 eggs in cracks in thick bark.
Its larvae can grow longer than the grown-up beetle, up to about 4 centimetres.
From egg to grown-up beetle takes about two years.
Most asked questions about Rust pine borer
?Is the rust pine borer dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people. Its larvae live inside pine and spruce trees.
?How big is the rust pine borer?
It is about 1 to 3 centimetres long, with long feelers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arhopalus rusticus
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Arhopalus rusticus (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 (c) Karol Ox, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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