What do longicorn beetles eat?

Longicorn beetles are the general name of Coleoptera polyphagous suborder Cerambycidae insects, also known as longicorn beetles, star anise, horned beetles, and so on. There are many species of longicorn beetles, more than 40000 species are known in the world, and there are about 3550 species in China. Almost every kind of tree is attacked by different species of longicorn beetles. Let's take a look at what longicorn beetles eat.

What do longicorn beetles eat?

Longicorn beetles are herbivorous insects, which are known to eat pollen, tender bark, twigs, leaves, roots, sap, fruits, fungi and other habits. Longicorn beetles often feed on pollen, while longicorn beetles often damage tender bark, twigs and leaves. Longicorn beetles are the main pests in forestry production, crop cultivation and construction wood, which can harm most pine, cypress, willow, elm, walnut, citrus, apple, peach and tea, some cotton, wheat, corn, sorghum, sugarcane and hemp, and a few wood, construction, houses and furniture.

What are the hazards of longicorn beetles?

The larvae of longicorn beetles eat tree trunks and branches, affecting the growth and development of trees, weakening the tree, causing germs to invade and easily be broken by the wind. When the damage is serious, the whole plant dies, the wood is eaten, and the technological value is lost. Longicorn beetles eat tree trunks, branches and roots in the larval stage, some of them damage herbs, and the larvae live in stems or roots, such as chrysanthemum longicorn beetles, melon and rattan longicorn beetles, etc. Individual species, such as cotton capsule longicorn beetles, harm cotton capsules. There are a few species, the larvae do not live in plant tissue, but feed on the roots in the soil, such as big teeth and curved teeth saw longicorn beetles, grass longicorn beetles and so on.

What kinds of longicorn beetles are there?

1. Tiger longicorn beetle: Tiger longicorn beetle is a kind of pest, which belongs to the genus Cerambycidae of Coleoptera, mainly including Monochamus alternatus, Monochamus alternatus, grape tiger longicorn beetle, green poplar tiger longicorn beetle and so on. Adults appear in summer and live in mid-altitude mountain areas.

2. Longicorn beetles: longicorn beetles are unique to Japan, China and South Korea, which can harm poplar, willow, elm, French sycamore, jujube, chestnut and other trees. it is also the main pest of crape myrtle, Platycladus angustifolia and citrus.

3. Sawed longicorn beetles: sawed longicorn beetles belong to the genus Cerambycidae. The main host plants are conifers, pines, fir, cypress, oak, beech, etc., distributed in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Taiwan and other places.

4. Lean longicorn beetles: lean longicorn beetles belong to the family Cerambycidae. The main host plants are fir, spruce, Linden pine, fish scale pine and other pine plants, distributed in Northeast China, Zhejiang and other places. Abroad, distributed in the Soviet Union, Korea, Sakhalin Island, Japan and other places.

5. Longicorn beetles: longicorn beetles are insects of the subfamily Cerambycidae of the family Cerambycidae, with nearly square shape, short head and chest, flat and wide sheath wings, female insects are significantly wider than males, head width is smaller than forechest, antennae does not reach the end of the sheath wing, and the fourth section is shorter than the third or fifth segment.