Engstrom Photo

Green flower bending

Morning, half overcast here today but hot air, wind makes it as usual. I shot a bit yesterday but the wind is annoying, was fortunate to shoot a green flower bending. A beautiful large långhorning.

Beetles are close to my heart, is one of those bugs that appeals to me.

Some facts about the book from the National key, Longhorn beetle, Cerambycidae:

Genus: Lepturobosca
A monotypic genus, ie there is only one species of the genus in the world, which also occurs in the North. It has greenish hair on the body and the larvae develop in the coniferous firewood.

Green flower bending Lepturobosca virens
Family: Longhorn beetle, Cerambycidae
Length: 14-22 mm

The larva of the green flower bending in the liver rough old, dead wood, mainly pine, spruce and birch trees as well. Larval development seems to take three years. Förpuppningen occurs inside the wood from the beginning of June. Beetle hatches last days of June and can be found throughout July.

The nature're predominantly white flowers that meadowsweet, Stratten, and daisy flowers of Achillea millefolium and raspberry flour and driving.

Green flower bending has its main distribution in northern Sweden. On the local bodies but have a reasonably coherent southward spread to Northern Upland and Central Värmland. South of it, it's only very locally and some are old gems.

The species is local but is prevalent in much of the northern coniferous forest landscape. The decreases are most likely through the supply of rough, dead wood is left on the ground decreases.