Clay-colored leaf beetle
Anomoea laticlavia
The clay-colored leaf beetle is a reddish-brown beetle with a black stripe down the middle of its back. The males have big front legs. Its young carry little cases around with them, like a snail with a shell.
Lives in
Central and eastern North America
Length
0.7 to 1.2 cm (0.28 to 0.47 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups eat leaves of plants like peas and beans, oaks, willows and persimmons. The larvae live in the ground and eat roots or fallen leaves.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 8 seconds
How big is Clay-colored leaf beetle compared to YOU?
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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)
Clay-colored leaf beetle about 0.45 km/h (0.28 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the case-bearing leaf beetles.
2
The black stripe on its back can be thin or wide.
3
It is also called the persimmon beetle, after one of the trees it eats.
4
It also nibbles on ragweed.
you asked
Most asked questions about Clay-colored leaf beetle
?What does the clay-colored leaf beetle eat?
Leaves of pea-family plants, oaks, willows, persimmon and ragweed.
?How big is the clay-colored leaf beetle?
About 7 to 12 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anomoea laticlavia
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Persimmon beetle
Where the facts come from
- Anomoea laticlavia (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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