Tanner beetle
The tanner beetle is a big, shiny dark brown longhorn beetle. It is one of the heaviest beetles in Europe. On each side of its neck it has three sharp teeth, and the males have long saw-edged feelers.
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Fun facts
Its larva can grow about 6 centimetres long, as long as your finger.
It takes at least three years to grow from an egg into a beetle.
It comes out mostly at dusk and at night, from July to September.
The females are bigger than the males.
Most asked questions about Tanner beetle
?How big is the tanner beetle?
It is 18 to 45 millimetres long, one of the most massive beetles in Europe.
?What does the tanner beetle eat?
Its larvae feed on rotting wood of trees.
?When can I see a tanner beetle?
From July to September, mostly in the evening and at night.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Prionus coriarius
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- The tanner, The sawyer
Where the facts come from
- Prionus coriarius (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 Accipiter , (R. Altenkamp, Berlin). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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