Bee beetle
The bee beetle is a small, fuzzy beetle with yellow or orange wing cases crossed by black stripes. Its body is covered in soft yellow hairs. With its stripes and fuzz, it looks a bit like a bumblebee, and that helps keep hungry birds away.
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Fun facts
You can find it sitting on flowers from May to July.
It lives mostly in mountain forest clearings and is rare in the lowlands.
Females have stronger, toothed front legs for digging than males.
Its grubs grow up inside dead wood of leafy trees.
Most asked questions about Bee beetle
?Is the bee beetle a bee?
No. It is a beetle that only looks a bit like a bumblebee, and it cannot sting.
?What does the bee beetle eat?
Pollen from flowers. Its grubs eat dead wood.
?How big is the bee beetle?
It is about 9 to 12 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichius fasciatus
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Eurasian bee beetle
Where the facts come from
- Trichius fasciatus (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 Ivar Leidus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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