Emerald tip beetle
The emerald tip beetle is a chunky Australian beetle, biscuit brown with a green or golden shine. Its body underneath is green with white hairs. It is one of the Christmas beetles, and it has strong jaws for chewing tough gum tree leaves.
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Fun facts
Its jaws are so strong that a big group can strip a gum tree of its leaves.
It picks leaves of medium age and skips the fresh new ones and the old ones.
It is picky about trees too: it eats Tasmanian blue gum but ignores a tree called blackbutt.
Tree growers have even bred gum trees that it does not like, to protect their forests.
The female is a little bigger than the male. She grows up to 26 millimetres long.
Most asked questions about Emerald tip beetle
?What does the emerald tip beetle eat?
Leaves of eucalyptus trees, also called gum trees.
?How big is the emerald tip beetle?
About 19 to 26 millimetres long. Females are a little bigger than males.
?Is the emerald tip beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people, but it can damage gum tree plantations.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anoplognathus brunnipennis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Brown Christmas beetle, Golden-brown Christmas beetle
Where the facts come from
- Anoplognathus brunnipennis (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 S.S.Nimbus. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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