Ladder-marked longhorn beetle
Bellamira scalaris
The ladder-marked longhorn beetle is a beetle with long feelers. It belongs to a group called flower longhorns. It is so special that it is the only species in its whole genus.
Lives in
Mostly eastern North America, and also seen in Yucatan in Mexico
Length
1.7 to 2.6 cm (0.67 to 1 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting. A big beetle may give a small pinch if you squeeze it, so just look.
What does it eat?
Like other longhorn beetles, its larvae grow up inside wood. The grown-up beetles belong to the flower longhorns, a group often seen on flowers.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 4 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 8.8 seconds
How big is Ladder-marked 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)
Ladder-marked longhorn beetle about 0.41 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its body is 17 to 26 millimetres long, so it is a fairly big beetle.
2
It has no close cousins in its genus. Scientists put it in a group all of its own.
3
It lives mostly in the east of North America, but it has also been found far south in Yucatan, Mexico.
you asked
Most asked questions about Ladder-marked longhorn beetle
?Is the ladder-marked longhorn beetle dangerous?
No. It has no sting and is harmless to people.
?How big is the ladder-marked longhorn beetle?
It is 17 to 26 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Bellamira scalaris
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Bellamira (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 Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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