Common sieve tortoise beetle
Chelymorpha cribraria
The common sieve tortoise beetle is a round, shell-shaped beetle from the Americas. Its wide body covers it like a little tortoise shell. It belongs to the leaf beetles, which nibble on plants.
Lives in
North, Central and South America and the Caribbean
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other leaf beetles, it eats the leaves of plants.
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)
Common sieve 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
People often mix it up with its cousin, the neotropical tortoise beetle, because they have similar colours and shapes.
2
Tortoise beetles are named after tortoises because their rounded body sticks out over their legs like a shell.
3
It lives in a huge area, from North America all the way down to South America.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common sieve tortoise beetle
?Is the common sieve tortoise beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless and does not bite or sting.
?Where does the common sieve tortoise beetle live?
In North, Central and South America and on the islands of the Caribbean.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chelymorpha cribraria
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Chelymorpha cribraria (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 bob in swamp. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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