Pigweed flea beetle
Disonycha glabrata
The pigweed flea beetle is a small striped leaf beetle. It lives on a weed called pigweed, where it eats and lays its eggs. Like other flea beetles, it can jump away quickly.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It eats redroot pigweed, a common weed, and its larvae do too.
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)
Pigweed flea beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its larvae grow through three stages in only about 9 days.
2
After that, the larvae spend about 13 and a half days in the soil before becoming beetles.
3
The mother lays her eggs right on the pigweed plant.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pigweed flea beetle
?What does the pigweed flea beetle eat?
Redroot pigweed, a common weed.
?Is the pigweed flea beetle harmful?
No. It is harmless to people and only eats a weed.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Disonycha glabrata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Disonycha glabrata (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 DaniloAves. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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