Grain support beetle
Aegosoma scabricorne
The grain support beetle is a big reddish yellow longhorn beetle covered in fine hairs. It is one of the biggest longhorn beetles in Europe. The male's feelers are as long as his whole body.
Lives in
Central and southern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia, in old trees
Length
2.5 to 5.2 cm (0.98 to 2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It lives quietly in old trees.
What does it eat?
Its larvae live inside the trunks of old leafy trees, like walnut, chestnut, poplar, lime and apple, and eat the wood.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 9 grains of rice in a row🧱as long as 1.5 toy building bricks in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 6.2 seconds
How big is Grain support beetle compared to YOU?
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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)
Grain support beetle about 0.58 km/h (0.36 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It can be up to about 5 centimetres long, as long as a grown-up's finger.
2
Growing from egg to beetle takes at least three years, mostly spent inside a tree trunk.
3
The grown-up beetles come out in summer, from June to August.
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Most asked questions about Grain support beetle
?How big is the grain support beetle?
From about 2.5 to 5 centimetres long, one of the biggest longhorns in Europe.
?What does the grain support beetle eat?
Its larvae eat the wood inside old trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aegosoma scabricorne
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Aegosoma scabricorne (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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