Variegated June beetle
The variegated June beetle is a chunky reddish-brown scarab beetle, a bit longer than your thumbnail is wide. At the tip of each feeler it has a little fan of flat plates. It likes sandy ground near big lakes and the sea.
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Fun facts
The fans on its feelers are made of seven thin plates that it can spread out.
Boys have much longer feeler fans than girls, so you can tell them apart.
It lives from Quebec in Canada all the way south to Virginia in the United States.
Most asked questions about Variegated June beetle
?How big is the variegated June beetle?
It is a little over 2 centimetres long.
?Where does the variegated June beetle live?
In North America, on sandy soil near the Great Lakes and along the coast from Quebec to Virginia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polyphylla variolosa
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Polyphylla variolosa (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 Henrique Pacheco. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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