Grape colaspis
Colaspis brunnea
Name means: “brown, from Latin”
The grape colaspis is a small brown leaf beetle from North America. Its wing covers have neat rows of tiny dents, like little dotted lines. It is only about half a centimetre long.
Lives in
North America, mostly the eastern United States, in fields
Length
5 mm (0.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. Farmers call it a pest, but it usually does not do much damage.
What does it eat?
It eats crops such as corn and soybeans. Its grubs live in the soil.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 12 seconds
How big is Grape colaspis compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Grape colaspis about 0.29 km/h (0.18 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its grubs spend the winter down in the soil.
2
There is only one family of it each year.
3
Its grub is white-grey with an orange head.
4
Farmers see it as a pest of corn and soybeans, but the damage it does is usually small.
you asked
Most asked questions about Grape colaspis
?How big is the grape colaspis?
About 5 millimetres long, roughly the size of a sesame seed.
?Is the grape colaspis a pest?
It nibbles crops like corn and soybeans, but usually not enough to cause big problems.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colaspis brunnea
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Colaspis brunnea (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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