Fairy-ring longhorn beetle
The fairy-ring longhorn beetle is a small, sturdy beetle with a shiny black front and reddish brown wing cases. It is covered in fine golden hair. In summer you can find it on flowers, eating pollen.
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Fun facts
Most longhorn larvae live in dead wood, but this one lives in the soil and eats the threads of the fairy ring mushroom.
That is where its name comes from: the fairy ring mushroom grows in circles in the grass.
It takes two years to grow from egg to beetle.
It loves flowers with flat, umbrella-shaped heads, like wild carrot.
Most asked questions about Fairy-ring longhorn beetle
?What does the fairy-ring longhorn beetle eat?
The beetles eat pollen and nectar. The larvae eat a mushroom underground.
?How big is the fairy-ring longhorn beetle?
Small, about 5 to 9 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudovadonia livida
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1776
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pseudovadonia livida (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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