Four spotted leaf beetle
The four spotted leaf beetle is a yellowish red beetle with four black spots on its wing covers. It lives near wood ants, and its babies even grow up inside the ants' nest.
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Fun facts
In spring you can often find it on flowering blackberry bushes.
It has a very similar cousin. To tell them apart, look at the shield behind the head: on this beetle it is covered in little dots and is not shiny.
Its two back spots are rounder and smaller than its cousin's.
Grown-up beetles are out from April to the end of August.
Most asked questions about Four spotted leaf beetle
?Is the four spotted leaf beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle that eats leaves.
?Where do its larvae live?
Inside the nests of wood ants. That is where they grow up.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Clytra quadripunctata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Clytra quadripunctata (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 Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 08:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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