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Pine Chafer

Polyphylla fullo

The Pine Chafer is a shiny beetle that loves to munch on pine trees. It has a beautiful greenish-brown color and can be found in forests during the summer.

Lebensraum: Forests

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The Pine Chafer is a large, robust beetle, typically dark brown or black with striking, irregular patches of white or yellowish scales, giving it a mottled appearance. These fuzzy white markings help it blend seamlessly with the bark of pine trees, making it unique among European chafers.

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Pine Chafer
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Pine Chafer

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

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Interessante Fakten

Despite their size, Pine Chafers are excellent flyers that buzz loudly when aloft!

Look closely, their brown bodies are covered in thousands of tiny white scales!

Their grubs spend several years eating roots underground before changing into beetles!

These large beetles are often attracted to bright lights on warm summer nights!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Bark Camouflage

Pine Chafer has a mottled pattern of white scales that helps them blend perfectly with pine bark, making them super hard to spot.

Fähigkeit

Strong Diggers

Pine Chafer larvae have powerful legs that help them tunnel through soil, efficiently finding tasty roots to munch on.

Fähigkeit

Super Sniffers

Male Pine Chafers have large, fan-like antennae that help them detect female pheromones from a long distance.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
50-70 mm
Größe
25-36 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-60 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
8 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

Pine Chafer grubs eat roots underground, while adults munch on pine needles.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae feed on roots underground for 2-3 years, while adults primarily consume pine needles for reproduction.

Hauptnahrung

  • pine roots
  • conifer roots
  • pine needles
  • conifer needles

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eats

Scots Pine

Pinus sylvestris

Larvae eat roots; adults eat needles.

eaten by

Tawny Owl

Strix aluco

Adults are food for nocturnal hunters.

eaten by

European Badger

Meles meles

Grubs are dug up and eaten by badgers.

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

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Be gentle and watch where you step in the forest to protect tiny creatures like the Pine Chafer.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Pine Chafer?

50-70 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Pine Chafer?

25-36 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Pine Chafer?

30-60 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Pine Chafer?

8 km/h

Was frisst Pine Chafer?

Pine Chafer grubs eat roots underground, while adults munch on pine needles.

Wo findet man Pine Chafer normalerweise?

Forests

Wie jagt Pine Chafer?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Pine Chafer?

6

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