French flower chafer
The French flower chafer is a hairy beetle with yellow wing cases crossed by black bands. Its fuzzy body makes it look a bit like a bee, so it is also called a bee beetle. You find it sitting in flowers in early summer.
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Fun facts
The hairs on the sides of its chest and the end of its body are why people call it a bee beetle.
You can see it from May to July.
Its hair is more orange red than that of its cousin, the bee chafer.
Many books call it Trichius rosaceus, but scientists say that name cannot be used.
Most asked questions about French flower chafer
?Is the bee beetle a bee?
No. It is a beetle that looks a bit like a bee because of its hairy body and yellow and black colours.
?Does the French flower chafer sting?
No. It is completely harmless.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichius gallicus
- Named by
- Dejean, 1821
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Also known as
- Bee beetle
Where the facts come from
- Trichius gallicus (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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