Plantain leaf beetle
Chrysolina haemoptera
The plantain leaf beetle is a small leaf beetle. It is dull blue-black all over, without any shiny metal gleam. You will find it on plantain plants, the low weeds with leaves that grow in a rosette.
Lives in
Europe, where plantain plants grow
Length
5 to 9 mm (0.2 to 0.35 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It eats plantain plants, especially buck's-horn plantain.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 9.2 seconds
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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)
Plantain leaf beetle about 0.39 km/h (0.24 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Many of its relatives shine like metal, but this one is plain and dull.
2
It belongs to the leaf beetles, a huge family of beetles that eat leaves.
3
Its favourite food is buck's-horn plantain, a little plant with leaves shaped like deer antlers.
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Most asked questions about Plantain leaf beetle
?How big is the plantain leaf beetle?
It is about 5 to 9 millimetres long.
?What does the plantain leaf beetle eat?
Plantain plants, most of all buck's-horn plantain.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chrysolina haemoptera
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Chrysolina haemoptera (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 jacilluch. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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