Common willow calligrapher beetle
Calligrapha multipunctata
The common willow calligrapher beetle is a little leaf beetle from North America. Calligraphy means fancy handwriting, and these beetles have squiggly marks on their backs that look like tiny writing. As its name says, it is a beetle of willows.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other leaf beetles, it eats leaves. Its name tells us it likes willows.
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 willow calligrapher beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the leaf beetles, a huge family of beetles that munch on leaves.
2
Scientists split it into three subspecies, slightly different kinds of the same beetle.
3
One of those kinds may really be a species of its own.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common willow calligrapher beetle
?Where does the common willow calligrapher beetle live?
In North America.
?Is the common willow calligrapher beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little leaf beetle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calligrapha multipunctata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Common willow calligrapha
Where the facts come from
- Calligrapha multipunctata (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 Smidon33. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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