Kern's flower scarab
Euphoria kernii
Kern's flower scarab is a beetle that loves flowers. It visits cactus, thistle and yucca flowers to eat pollen and drink nectar. While it eats, it helps the flowers make seeds.
Lives in
Texas, the Great Plains and New Mexico in the United States, and northeastern Mexico
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting and does not damage anything.
What does it eat?
It eats pollen and drinks nectar from flowers like cactus, thistle, yucca and prickly poppy.
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)
Kern's flower scarab about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a helpful pollinator, carrying pollen from flower to flower.
2
It was described by an American scientist, Samuel Haldeman, in 1852.
3
It lives in dry places where cactus and yucca grow.
you asked
Most asked questions about Kern's flower scarab
?Is Kern's flower scarab harmful?
No. It does not bite, sting or damage anything. It even helps flowers.
?What does Kern's flower scarab eat?
Pollen and nectar from flowers like cactus, thistle and yucca.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euphoria kernii
- Named by
- Haldeman, 1852
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Euphoria kernii (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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