Sulphur beetle
Cteniopus sulphureus
The sulphur beetle is a small beetle as yellow as a buttercup. Its wing cases are pale yellow and its head and shoulders are orange yellow. It loves warm, sunny places and sits on flowers.
Lives in
Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, Slovenia and Italy, in sunny meadows
Length
7 to 8 mm (0.28 to 0.31 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
You find it on flower heads, especially yarrow, where it feeds on what the flowers offer.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 9.7 seconds
How big is Sulphur beetle compared to YOU?
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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)
Sulphur beetle about 0.37 km/h (0.23 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is only 7 to 8 millimetres long, smaller than a fingernail.
2
Its head sticks out forwards a little, like a short nose.
3
It belongs to the comb-clawed beetles, which have tiny comb-like teeth on their claws.
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Most asked questions about Sulphur beetle
?Where can I find a sulphur beetle?
On flowers like yarrow in warm, sunny meadows.
?Is the sulphur beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little yellow beetle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cteniopus sulphureus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Tenebrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Tenebrionidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Cteniopus sulphureus (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 Dendrofil. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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