Grooved leaf beetle
The grooved leaf beetle is a leaf beetle that lives by the water. It spends its life among tall grasses that grow in ponds and ditches. Its babies even live underwater, among the plant roots.
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Fun facts
It lives in a lot of European countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Sweden.
The grown-up beetles nibble the leaves of tall water grasses called sweet-grass.
Its babies feed on the roots and leaves of the same grass.
It turns from a baby into a beetle among the roots of a water plant called bur-reed.
Most asked questions about Grooved leaf beetle
?What does the grooved leaf beetle eat?
It eats the leaves of sweet-grass, a tall grass that grows in wet places.
?Does the grooved leaf beetle live in Estonia?
Yes. It lives in many European countries, Estonia among them.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Donacia semicuprea
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Donacia semicuprea (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 TristramBrelstaff. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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