Green chafer
Anomala albopilosa
The green chafer is a beetle from East Asia. It belongs to the scarab family, the same big family as dung beetles and May bugs. Its larva is a fat white grub that lives in the soil.
Lives in
Japan, Korea and Taiwan
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Chafer grubs live underground and nibble plant roots. One of its names, sugarcane white grub, tells us its grubs can eat sugarcane.
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)
Green chafer about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives on the three biggest islands of Japan, on the Ryukyu Islands, in Korea and in Taiwan.
2
It has three English names: green chafer, white-haired leaf chafer and sugarcane white grub.
3
When it was first described in 1839, it was put in a different group of beetles called Euchlora.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green chafer
?Where does the green chafer live?
In Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
?Is the green chafer dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle, though its grubs can nibble crops like sugarcane.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anomala albopilosa
- Named by
- Hope, 1839
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- White-haired leaf chafer, Sugarcane white grub
Where the facts come from
- Anomala albopilosa (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 PD files. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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