Heart longhorn beetle
Stictoleptura cordigera
The heart longhorn beetle has bright red wing covers with a black pattern, and a black head and body. Like all longhorn beetles, it has long feelers. In summer it sits on flowers in southern Europe.
Lives in
Southern Europe, Turkey and northern Iran
Length
1.4 to 2 cm (0.55 to 0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting.
What does it eat?
Grown-ups eat pollen and nectar, most of all from flowers of the carrot family. The babies grow up inside rotten wood.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 10 seconds
How big is Heart longhorn 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)
Heart longhorn beetle about 0.36 km/h (0.22 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its babies live inside rotten wood of trees such as holm oak, cork oak and chestnut.
2
It takes two or three years to grow from egg to grown-up beetle.
3
Grown-ups are out from June to August.
4
It is a very common visitor on flat white flower heads like those of wild carrot.
you asked
Most asked questions about Heart longhorn beetle
?Is the heart longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle that visits flowers.
?How big is the heart longhorn beetle?
Grown-ups are about 14 to 20 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stictoleptura cordigera
- Named by
- Fuesslin, 1775
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Stictoleptura cordigera (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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