Timberman beetle
The timberman beetle is a longhorn beetle with super long feelers. The boy's feelers can be three times as long as his whole body. Its grey-brown, hairy back looks just like pine bark, so it is very hard to spot on a tree.
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Fun facts
It can survive freezing cold below minus 37 degrees, both as a beetle and as a larva.
It lives up to 3 years, and it spends 1 or 2 of them as a larva under the bark.
The girl's feelers are shorter, about one and a half times her body length.
Its legs and feelers have brown and black stripes.
In Finland it is called Sarvijaakko.
Most asked questions about Timberman beetle
?Why does the timberman beetle have such long antennae?
It is a longhorn beetle. The boy's feelers can be three times as long as his body.
?Is the timberman beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?Where does the timberman beetle live?
It lives in pine and spruce forests in Europe and Asia, even in cold Siberia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Acanthocinus aedilis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Siberian timberman
Where the facts come from
- Timberman beetle (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 Syrio. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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