Green tortoise beetle
Cassida circumdata
The green tortoise beetle is a small, shiny metallic green beetle. Like other tortoise beetles, its wide flat back covers its body like a little shell. Even its eyes are green.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia and South Pacific islands
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It eats the leaves of morning glory plants and their relatives.
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)
Green tortoise beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its eggs hatch in only about 2 to 6 days.
2
People use it to fight weedy plants from the morning glory family.
3
It belongs to the tortoise beetles, which hide under their shell like a tortoise.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green tortoise beetle
?What colour is the green tortoise beetle?
It is shiny metallic green, even its eyes.
?What does the green tortoise beetle eat?
Leaves of morning glory plants and their relatives.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cassida circumdata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cassida circumdata (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 Jean-Paul Boerekamps. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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