Aromia

Aromia

The Musk Beetle, *Aromia moschata* (Linnaeus, 1758), is one of the most instantly recognisable longhorn beetles of the Western Palaearctic — a large, gleaming insect of 15–38 mm whose metallic green to blue-violet livery catches the summer light along willow-lined riverbanks and floodplain pastures. Adults are most active by day from June to August, often found resting or feeding on the bark and sap of old willows, and emit a distinctive, pervasive musk fragrance from metathoracic glands that makes them unmistakeable even before they are seen. Larvae develop subcortically and then deeper into the heartwood of living or apparently healthy trunks of *Salix* — primarily old, pollarded trees — w…

Seasonal activity

Flight season: Summer–Autumn

Green = active months · Orange = peak

Host plants

Primary hosts: poplar

External resources

GBIF · Wikidata · Käfer der Welt

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