Coreopsis beetle
Calligrapha californica
The coreopsis beetle is a small beetle from North America. It belongs to the leaf beetles, a huge family of beetles that munch on plants. Like all beetles, it has six legs and hard covers over its wings.
Lives in
The United States and Canada
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite people or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other leaf beetles, it eats the leaves of plants.
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)
Coreopsis beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in the United States and in Canada.
2
Its hard front wings are really covers that protect the thin flying wings folded underneath.
3
Leaf beetles are one of the biggest beetle families in the world, with many thousands of kinds.
you asked
Most asked questions about Coreopsis beetle
?Is the coreopsis beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small, harmless beetle.
?What does the coreopsis beetle eat?
It is a leaf beetle, so it eats plant leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calligrapha californica
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Calligrapha californica (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 Gilles Gonthier. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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