Sculptured pine borer
The sculptured pine borer is a big metallic beetle that shines dark copper. Its back is bumpy and rough, as if someone carved it out of metal. It lives in the pine forests of eastern North America.
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Fun facts
Its coppery body has raised dark parts and lighter dips covered in tiny dots, like a sculpture.
Its underside shines copper with a touch of pink on the sides.
A few have turned up in Europe and Japan, probably carried there by accident in timber.
It is a little more than 2.5 centimetres long, which is big for a beetle.
Most asked questions about Sculptured pine borer
?Is the sculptured pine borer dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?What does the sculptured pine borer eat?
Its larvae live inside pine trees and eat the wood.
?Why is it called sculptured?
Its bumpy, rough, metal-looking back looks as if it were carved by an artist.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chalcophora virginiensis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Buprestidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Chalcophora virginiensis (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 Plates: Dru Drury (1725–1803). Text: John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893). Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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