Ant-like longhorn beetle
The ant-like longhorn beetle is a small beetle that pretends to be an ant. It looks like an ant and even walks like one. Birds and other hunters leave ants alone, so this trick keeps it safe.
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Fun facts
Some are red and copy one kind of carpenter ant, others are black and copy another kind.
Its grubs like to live in dead parts of living trees and bushes, sometimes deep down in the roots.
It finds weak and stressed trees by their smell.
In some small city forests in Delaware it was the most common beetle of all.
Most asked questions about Ant-like longhorn beetle
?Is the ant-like longhorn beetle an ant?
No. It is a beetle that looks and walks like an ant to stay safe.
?How big is the ant-like longhorn beetle?
It is about 7 to 11 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyrtophorus verrucosus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Ant-mimic longhorn beetle
Where the facts come from
- Cyrtophorus verrucosus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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