Characteristics and living habits of longicorn beetles

The characteristics of longicorn beetles are that adults are hard beetles, the whole body is protected by hard shells, and the head has tentacles. Life is characterized by living in trees and feeding on plant trunks and branches.

trait

Adults are large and medium-sized hard beetles with long cones. The whole body is protected by colorful horny shells, and the head is supported by a pair of long pine tentacles. Large species are 30~50 mm long, and their larvae are cylindrical, soft and fat, slightly flat, white or yellowish, and have a pair of fangs that are good at chewing flowers and trees.

Life characteristics

Long-horned beetles mainly live in trees, and feed on plant trunks, branches and leaves from the beginning of larvae.

Brief introduction of longicorn beetle

Cerambycidae, a kind of chewing mouthparts, is the general name of herbivorous insects of Cerambycidae. It has long tentacles, which usually exceed the length of its body.

Some species are pests, and their larvae live in wood, which may cause harm to trees or buildings. Anoplophora longicorn is an herbivorous insect, which will harm woody plants. Most of them are pine, cypress, willow, elm, walnut, orange, apple, peach and tea, some are cotton, wheat, corn, sorghum, sugarcane and hemp, and a few are wood, buildings, houses and furniture. It is the main pest of forestry production, crop cultivation and building wood.

Coleoptera (Cerambycidae) beetle, its English common name comes from the extremely long tentacles of most species. There are many kinds of longicorn beetles, with 22,000 known in the world and about 2,200 in China, which are distributed all over the world, but most of them are in tropical areas. For example, the European bee-shaped tiger beetle and the African horned beetle.