Indian flower chafer
Gametis versicolor
The Indian flower chafer is a beetle from Asia that loves flowers. It visits flowers to feed on them. While it does that, it may carry pollen from one flower to the next and help a few plants make seeds.
Lives in
Asia, including India, and the Seychelles Islands
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It feeds on flowers. In India it also eats crops in farmers' fields.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Indian flower chafer about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a kind of flower chafer, a group of beetles that spend a lot of time on flowers.
2
In India it can be a problem for farmers, because it damages crops like cotton, millet, lentils and oil seeds.
3
It also lives far out in the ocean on the Seychelles Islands.
you asked
Most asked questions about Indian flower chafer
?Is the Indian flower chafer harmful?
Not to people. But it can damage some crops in India, like cotton and lentils.
?Where does the Indian flower chafer live?
In Asia, and also on the Seychelles Islands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gametis versicolor
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Gametis versicolor (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by L. Shyamal. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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