Spotted tree borer
The spotted tree borer is a longhorn beetle from the west coast of North America. Its babies grow up inside the wood of trees. It is so special that it is the only species in its whole group, called a genus.
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Fun facts
Scientists have raised it from many kinds of trees, including willow, alder, coffeeberry, walnut and cherry.
The very first one described by scientists was found in Benicia, a town in California, back in 1852.
Like other longhorn beetles, it has long feelers on its head.
Most asked questions about Spotted tree borer
?Where does the spotted tree borer live?
On the Pacific coast of North America, from British Columbia in Canada down to California.
?What does the spotted tree borer eat?
Its grubs grow inside the wood of trees such as willow, alder, walnut and cherry.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Synaphaeta guexi
- Named by
- LeConte, 1852
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Synaphaeta (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 Kaldari. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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