Giant flower beetle
The giant flower beetle is a huge, shiny green beetle with white markings on its back. Among flower beetles, only the Goliath beetles are bigger. Males have a horn on their forehead.
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Fun facts
Its larva can grow to about 8 centimetres long and weigh 30 to 40 grams.
Females are a bit smaller than males and have no horn.
Scientists have fitted tiny radios to these beetles to steer how they walk and fly.
There are several kinds of it living in different parts of Africa.
Most asked questions about Giant flower beetle
?How big is the giant flower beetle?
Males can be up to 8.5 centimetres long, and females up to about 6 centimetres.
?Where does the giant flower beetle live?
In tropical Africa, especially Congo, Cameroon and Uganda.
?Is the giant flower beetle dangerous?
No. It is big but harmless.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mecynorhina torquata
- Named by
- Drury, 1782
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Mecynorhina torquata (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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