Round-headed apple tree borer
Saperda candida
The round-headed apple tree borer is a longhorn beetle from North America. Longhorn beetles have very long feelers. Its babies live inside the wood of trees and tunnel through it.
Lives in
Canada and the United States, in orchards and woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Its larvae chew tunnels through the wood of trees.
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)
Round-headed apple tree borer about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the longhorn beetles, which have feelers that can be as long as their body.
2
A tiny wasp lays its eggs on this beetle's babies, and the wasp babies eat them.
3
It was first described by a scientist named Fabricius in 1787.
you asked
Most asked questions about Round-headed apple tree borer
?Where does the round-headed apple tree borer live?
In Canada and the United States.
?Is the apple tree borer dangerous?
Not to people. Its babies can harm trees by tunnelling in the wood.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Saperda candida
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1787
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Saperda candida (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 Gilles Gonthier. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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