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Slender flower longhorn beetle

Strangalia famelica
Eats: Nectar and pollenBeetlesGardens and meadows6 legs

The slender flower longhorn beetle is a thin beetle from North America. Like all longhorn beetles, it has long feelers. Flower longhorns like it are often seen sitting on flowers.

Lives in
North America, on flowers
Top speed
about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups visit flowers for pollen and nectar. The babies grow up inside wood.
For real!Photo of Slender flower longhorn beetle
Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

cool stuff

Fun facts

1

It belongs to the longhorn beetles, a big family named after their very long feelers.

2

It is a flower longhorn, one of the longhorn beetles that visit flowers as grown-ups.

3

Scientists split it into two subspecies.

you asked

Most asked questions about Slender flower longhorn beetle

?Is the flower longhorn beetle dangerous?

No. It does not sting and is harmless.

?Where does the slender flower longhorn beetle live?

In North America, where it is often seen on flowers.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Strangalia famelica
Named by
Newman, 1841
Group
Beetles
Family
Cerambycidae
Classification
Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
Lives on
North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Strangalia famelica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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