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Pole borer

Neandra brunnea
Eats: WoodBeetlesForests and woods6 legs

The pole borer is a shiny yellowish-brown or reddish-brown beetle. It is a longhorn beetle, but its feelers are surprisingly short and toothed like a little saw. Its name tells you that its young bore into wood.

Lives in
Eastern North America, in woods
Length
0.8 to 2 cm (0.31 to 0.79 in)
Top speed
about 0.36 km/h (0.22 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting.
What does it eat?
Its larvae live in wood and chew tunnels through it.
For real!Photo of Pole borer
Picture by Cody Hough. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Pole borer about 2 cm long (0.79 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 3 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 10 seconds

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Fun facts

1

Most longhorn beetles have very long feelers, but the pole borer's are short.

2

You can see it from March to November.

3

It lives all over the eastern part of North America.

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Most asked questions about Pole borer

?How big is the pole borer?

Between about 8 and 20 millimetres long.

?Where does the pole borer live?

In the whole eastern part of North America.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Neandra brunnea
Group
Beetles
Family
Cerambycidae
Classification
Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
Lives on
North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Neandra brunnea (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 Cody Hough. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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