Spotted willow leaf beetle
Chrysomela vigintipunctata
The spotted willow leaf beetle is a shiny beetle with yellowish green wing cases. Each wing case has ten black spots, so it has twenty in all. It lives on willows and poplars near lakes and swamps.
Lives in
Most of Europe, Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Japan
Length
6.5 to 9.2 mm (0.26 to 0.36 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Both the beetles and their larvae eat the leaves of willows and poplars.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 9.2 seconds
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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)
Spotted willow leaf beetle about 0.39 km/h (0.24 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its head and the shield behind it are black with yellow sides.
2
It likes forests along lakes and swamps, where willows grow.
3
In Britain, only one has ever been found, lying dead on a beach in 2016.
you asked
Most asked questions about Spotted willow leaf beetle
?What does the spotted willow leaf beetle eat?
The leaves of willows and poplars. Its larvae eat them too.
?How many spots does the spotted willow leaf beetle have?
Usually twenty, ten on each wing case.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chrysomela vigintipunctata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Chrysomela vigintipunctata (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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