Ragweed leaf beetle
The ragweed leaf beetle is a tiny yellowish beetle with dark brown stripes down its back. It loves to eat one plant most of all: ragweed. It comes from North America but now lives in Europe and Asia too.
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Fun facts
Its eggs are shaped like tiny pears. They start yellow and soon turn orange.
Before turning into a grown up beetle, it makes a cocoon on the tip of a leaf.
Even though it is so small, it can travel up to 25 kilometres in one day.
It arrived in Europe in 2013.
Most asked questions about Ragweed leaf beetle
?What does the ragweed leaf beetle eat?
Mostly ragweed, and also sunflowers and other plants in that family.
?How big is the ragweed leaf beetle?
Tiny, only about 3.4 to 4.3 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ophraella communa
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ophraella communa (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 Zygy. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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