Ladder-marked longhorn beetle
Saperda scalaris
The ladder-marked longhorn beetle is a longhorn beetle from Europe and Asia. Like its relatives, it has long feelers. The pattern on its back looks a bit like the rungs of a ladder.
Lives in
Europe and Asia, and one kind in North Africa
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. Just watch it and let it go on its way.
What does it eat?
Like other longhorn beetles of its kind, its young grow up inside the wood of trees and eat it.
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)
Ladder-marked longhorn beetle about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Carl Linnaeus, a famous Swedish scientist, described it in 1758 and first put it in another group of beetles.
2
There are two kinds of it, and one of them lives in Algeria in North Africa.
3
Some tiny wasps lay their eggs on its young, and their babies eat the beetle young.
you asked
Most asked questions about Ladder-marked longhorn beetle
?Where does the ladder-marked longhorn beetle live?
In many parts of Europe and Asia, and one kind lives in North Africa.
?Is the ladder-marked longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Saperda scalaris
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Saperda scalaris (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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