Bamboo tiger longhorn
The bamboo tiger longhorn is a longhorn beetle from Asia. As its other name, bamboo borer, tells you, its young grow up inside bamboo. Like all longhorn beetles, it has long feelers on its head.
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Fun facts
It has been found on more than twenty kinds of plants, from bamboo and sugarcane to apple and teak trees.
Its larvae can hide inside bamboo and wood that people send to other countries.
To stop the beetles travelling around the world, bamboo goods can be treated with a special gas that kills the hidden larvae.
Most asked questions about Bamboo tiger longhorn
?What does the bamboo tiger longhorn eat?
Its larvae live in and feed on bamboo and the stems of many other plants.
?Is the bamboo tiger longhorn dangerous?
Not to people. It only harms bamboo and some other plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlorophorus annularis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Bamboo tiger longicorn, Bamboo borer
Where the facts come from
- Chlorophorus annularis (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 This image is created by user Dick Belgers at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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