Dark flower scarab
Euphoria sepulcralis
The dark flower scarab is a small brown beetle, about one centimetre long. It belongs to the flower scarabs, a group of beetles that are often found on flowers.
Lives in
Mexico and the southern and central United States
Length
0.9 to 1.1 cm (0.35 to 0.43 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other flower scarabs, it visits flowers.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 8.4 seconds
How big is Dark flower scarab 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)
Dark flower scarab about 0.43 km/h (0.27 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is about as long as your fingernail is wide.
2
It is a kind of scarab beetle, a big family that also includes dung beetles and chafers.
3
It belongs to a group of flower scarabs that lives only in the Americas.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dark flower scarab
?Is the dark flower scarab harmful?
No. It is a small harmless beetle.
?Where does the dark flower scarab live?
In Mexico and the southern and central United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euphoria sepulcralis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Euphoria sepulcralis (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 Patrick Coin ( Patrick Coin ). CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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