Sweetpotato leaf beetle
Aspidomorpha miliaris
The sweetpotato leaf beetle is a tortoise beetle about one and a half centimetres long. Its back is yellowish brown, sprinkled with black spots. Some beetles have lots of spots and others almost none.
Lives in
India and Southeast Asia, on farms and in gardens
Length
1.5 cm (0.59 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. Farmers do not like it, because it eats their crops.
What does it eat?
It and its larvae eat the leaves of sweet potatoes and morning glories.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 7.2 seconds
How big is Sweetpotato leaf 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)
Sweetpotato leaf beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
No two beetles look quite the same, because the number and pattern of spots changes a lot.
2
Its larvae live together in groups and can harm sweet potato crops.
3
Its genus name is often spelled wrong. The correct spelling is Aspidimorpha.
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Most asked questions about Sweetpotato leaf beetle
?What does the sweetpotato leaf beetle eat?
The leaves of sweet potatoes and morning glories.
?How big is the sweetpotato leaf beetle?
About 1.5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aspidomorpha miliaris
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Aspidimorpha miliaris (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 Udo Schmidt. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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