Kapok longhorned borer
Glenea cantor
The kapok longhorned borer is a longhorn beetle from warm parts of Asia. Like all longhorn beetles, it has very long feelers on its head. Its name tells us it is a borer, a beetle whose young grow up inside trees.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia, from India to China, Vietnam and the Philippines
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people.
What does it eat?
Longhorn beetle larvae live inside tree trunks and branches and chew the wood. Its name says it likes the kapok tree.
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)
Kapok longhorned borer about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It was first described by a scientist named Fabricius in 1787, more than 230 years ago.
2
It lives in at least nine countries, including India, Thailand, China and the Philippines.
3
There are three kinds of it, living in different places.
you asked
Most asked questions about Kapok longhorned borer
?Is the kapok longhorned borer dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?Why is it called a longhorned borer?
Because it has very long feelers, and its young bore holes into wood.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Glenea cantor
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1787
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Glenea cantor (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 Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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