Daffodil leaf-beetle
Exosoma lusitanicum
Name means: “Exosoma comes from the old Greek words for outside and body. Lusitanicum means from Lusitania, the old name for Portugal”
The daffodil leaf-beetle is a small, shiny beetle with a red orange back. Its head, feelers, legs and tummy are black. It lives in warm, dry places around the Mediterranean Sea.
Lives in
France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Near East, in warm, dry places
Length
6 to 8 mm (0.24 to 0.31 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its larvae eat the bulbs of daffodils and similar plants. The grown-ups eat flowers of wild plants, mostly from the daisy family.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 9.7 seconds
How big is Daffodil leaf-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)
Daffodil leaf-beetle about 0.37 km/h (0.23 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is about 6 to 8 millimetres long, a bit smaller than a fingernail.
2
Its larvae live in the soil and eat the bulbs of daffodils.
3
It lives on low plains and up to a thousand metres high.
4
It can be a problem for vineyards.
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Most asked questions about Daffodil leaf-beetle
?What does the daffodil leaf-beetle eat?
The larvae eat daffodil bulbs. The grown-ups eat flowers of wild plants like those in the daisy family.
?How big is the daffodil leaf-beetle?
It is about 6 to 8 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Exosoma lusitanicum
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Exosoma lusitanicum (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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