Asiatic garden beetle
The Asiatic garden beetle is a small, sturdy, reddish brown beetle with a rainbow shimmer. It comes out at night to munch leaves and flowers. Its babies are fat white grubs that live in the soil.
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Fun facts
It eats at night, so gardeners often do not know who ate their leaves.
On summer nights it gathers around lamps and lights.
Its grubs are curled like the letter C and grow from about 1.4 to 19 millimetres long.
In tests, it liked basil better than carrots, peppers and many other plants.
It was first found in America in New Jersey in 1921 and has spread to many states since.
Most asked questions about Asiatic garden beetle
?What does the Asiatic garden beetle eat?
Leaves and flowers of over 100 kinds of plants. Its grubs eat roots in the soil.
?When is the Asiatic garden beetle active?
In summer, mostly at night, when it feeds and flies to lights.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Maladera formosae
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Maladera formosae (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 Beatriz Moisset. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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