Bronze beetle
Chrysolina bankii
The bronze beetle is a shiny, round leaf beetle that glows like old bronze metal. It has orange-brown legs and tiny dents all over its wing covers. It likes sunny, open places full of plants.
Lives in
Western Europe and the western Mediterranean, and now also California and Virginia
Length
0.8 to 1.1 cm (0.31 to 0.42 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It eats leaves of many plants, especially daisy and mint family plants. Ribwort plantain is one of its favourites.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 8.6 seconds
How big is Bronze beetle compared to YOU?
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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)
Bronze beetle about 0.42 km/h (0.26 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The mother lays her eggs on the underside of leaves.
2
In cold places it spends the winter as a larva, but in warm places grown-up beetles can be found in winter too.
3
It was brought to the United States by accident and is spreading there.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bronze beetle
?Is the bronze beetle harmful?
No. It is a harmless leaf beetle that eats plants.
?What does the bronze beetle eat?
Leaves of many plants, especially daisy and mint family plants and ribwort plantain.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chrysolina bankii
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Bank's leaf beetle
Where the facts come from
- Chrysolina bankii (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 (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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