Downy leather-winged beetle
Podabrus pruinosus
The downy leather-winged beetle is an orange beetle with soft, blackish brown wing covers. Its wing covers are covered in fine hair, like soft fuzz. It is a helpful garden bug because it eats aphids.
Lives in
North America, in gardens, meadows and woods
Length
0.9 to 1.5 cm (0.35 to 0.59 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups eat aphids, the tiny bugs that suck sap from plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 7.2 seconds
How big is Downy leather-winged 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)
Downy leather-winged beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
If something disturbs it, it simply drops to the ground.
2
Its babies are pink and live in the soil.
3
The babies grow to 15 to 20 millimetres, even longer than the grown-up beetles.
4
You can see it most in spring and summer.
you asked
Most asked questions about Downy leather-winged beetle
?What does the downy leather-winged beetle eat?
It eats aphids, so gardeners are happy to have it around.
?How big is the downy leather-winged beetle?
It is about 9 to 15 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Podabrus pruinosus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cantharidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cantharidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Podabrus pruinosus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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