Cypress jewel beetle
The cypress jewel beetle is a small beetle that shines metallic green, like a jewel, with steel-blue spots. It comes from the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. Its babies live inside the wood of junipers and cypress trees.
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Its babies have no legs and grow 15 to 20 millimetres long, longer than the grown-up beetle.
Since the early 2000s it has been moving north, and it has reached Belgium, Poland and Ukraine.
Scientists think it is spreading because the climate is getting warmer.
Gardeners do not like it, because its babies can badly damage garden conifers.
Most asked questions about Cypress jewel beetle
?Is the cypress jewel beetle dangerous?
Not to people. It is harmless to touch, but it can harm junipers and other garden conifers.
?How big is the cypress jewel beetle?
The grown-up beetle is 6 to 12 mm long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lamprodila festiva
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Buprestidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Juniper jewel beetle
Where the facts come from
- Lamprodila festiva (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 Siga. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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