White-clouded longhorn beetle
Mesosa nebulosa
The white-clouded longhorn beetle is a small longhorn beetle with long feelers. Its name tells us it has a cloudy, patchy pattern on its back. It lives among trees all over Europe.
Lives in
Europe and the Caucasus
Length
0.9 to 1.5 cm (0.35 to 0.59 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting and is not dangerous to people.
What does it eat?
It feeds on trees and bushes such as hazel, fig and walnut.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 12 seconds
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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)
White-clouded longhorn beetle about 0.31 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is 9 to 15 millimetres long, about as long as a fingernail.
2
When it was first described in 1781, scientists put it in a different group of beetles called Lamia.
3
Its favourite plants are hazel, fig and walnut trees.
you asked
Most asked questions about White-clouded longhorn beetle
?What does the white-clouded longhorn beetle eat?
It feeds on hazel, fig and walnut trees.
?How big is the white-clouded longhorn beetle?
It is 9 to 15 millimetres long, about as long as a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mesosa nebulosa
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1781
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Mesosa nebulosa (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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