Two-spotted melyrid
The two-spotted melyrid is a small, soft beetle from North America. It has a dark green head, shiny blue-green wing covers and an orange-red middle with two black spots. Those two spots give it its name.
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Fun facts
It belongs to the soft-winged flower beetles.
Its body is widest near its back end.
Its feelers have little teeth like a saw, and in males the base of each feeler is bigger.
It is busy in summer and spends the winter as a grown-up beetle.
Most asked questions about Two-spotted melyrid
?Is the two-spotted melyrid dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people and even eats aphids that harm plants.
?What does the two-spotted melyrid eat?
Mostly small creatures like aphids, caterpillars, insect eggs and spider mites, and sometimes pollen.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Collops bipunctatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Melyridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Melyridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Two-spotted flower beetle
Where the facts come from
- Collops bipunctatus (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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