Spinach flea beetle
Disonycha xanthomelas
The spinach flea beetle is a small leaf beetle from North America. It belongs to the flea beetles. Flea beetles have thick back legs and can jump away very fast, a bit like fleas.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It eats leaves. Its name tells us it can be found on spinach.
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)
Spinach 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
Flea beetles got their name because they can jump like fleas when something disturbs them.
2
It belongs to the big family of leaf beetles, which all eat plants.
3
Its group is called the skeletonizing leaf beetles, because some of them eat a leaf until only the thin veins are left, like a little skeleton.
you asked
Most asked questions about Spinach flea beetle
?What does the spinach flea beetle eat?
It eats the leaves of plants, and as its name says, it can be found on spinach.
?Why is it called a flea beetle?
Because it can jump away quickly, like a flea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Disonycha xanthomelas
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Disonycha xanthomelas (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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