Burnt pine longhorn
The burnt pine longhorn is a reddish brown to black beetle with long, thread-like feelers. It has a strange favourite place: trees that have been hurt by fire. Soon after a forest fire, it arrives to lay its eggs.
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Fun facts
Females can smell burnt trees and sawmills and fly towards them.
It can lay eggs in the bark just one day after a fire.
One female can lay up to about 1000 eggs.
At home in Europe it takes 3 to 4 years to grow up, but in New Zealand only 1 to 2 years.
Most asked questions about Burnt pine longhorn
?Why is it called the burnt pine longhorn?
Because it loves to lay its eggs in pine trees that have been burnt by fire.
?Is the burnt pine longhorn dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arhopalus ferus
- Named by
- Mulsant, 1839
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Arhopalus ferus (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 Siga. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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