Willow flea-beetle
The willow flea beetle is a tiny, shiny oval beetle. The boys are black and the girls are green, and both have orange legs and feelers. Like all flea beetles, it can jump away like a flea.
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Fun facts
You can tell it has visited a willow by the small round holes it chews in the leaves.
It spends the winter asleep under tree bark, logs or old leaves.
Its larva is black and looks like a tiny slug.
A willow flea beetle lives for about 8 or 9 months.
The mother lays yellow, spindle-shaped eggs on leaves the beetles have already been nibbling.
Most asked questions about Willow flea-beetle
?What does the willow flea beetle eat?
Leaves of willows and poplars. It chews small round holes in them.
?How big is the willow flea beetle?
Tiny. It is only about 2.5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Crepidodera aurata
- Named by
- Marsham, 1802
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Willow flea beetle
Where the facts come from
- Crepidodera aurata (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 URSchmidt. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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