Passionflower flea beetle
The passionflower flea beetle is a small, oval, orange-red beetle. Some have a big black spot on their back, and others have black and pale yellow stripes. It eats almost nothing but passionflower plants.
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Fun facts
It is about 7 millimetres long, which is big for a flea beetle.
Passionflower leaves have poison in them, but this beetle eats them anyway.
In winter the grown-ups hide under leaves or in the ground, and in spring they lay eggs on passionflowers.
Its first name means two claws in Greek, and its second name is about the round black spot on its back.
Most asked questions about Passionflower flea beetle
?What does the passionflower flea beetle eat?
The leaves of passionflower plants, and almost nothing else.
?How big is the passionflower flea beetle?
About 7 millimetres long and 4 millimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Disonycha discoidea
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Disonycha discoidea (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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