Sugarcane beetle
Euetheola rugiceps
The sugarcane beetle is a sturdy scarab beetle from North America. Scarabs are a big beetle family that also has dung beetles in it. Like its cousins, it has feelers that end in a little fan.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
It belongs to the scarab family, where many beetles feed on dung and rotting plant bits.
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)
Sugarcane beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
For a long time it was thought to be the same kind as a beetle from Central and South America.
2
Now the North American ones count as their own kind, and the southern ones kept the old name.
3
Scarab beetles can fold the tips of their feelers together like a little closed fan.
you asked
Most asked questions about Sugarcane beetle
?Is the sugarcane beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle that does not sting.
?Where does the sugarcane beetle live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euetheola rugiceps
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Euetheola rugiceps (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 Judy Gallagher Depicted place: 15520 Blackburn Rd, Woodbridge, VA 22191, USA ( 38°36′56″N 77°16′41″W / 38.615679°N 77.2781844°W / 38.615679; -77.2781844 ). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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