Blue fungus beetle
Cypherotylus californicus
The blue fungus beetle has blue wing cases covered in black dots. As it gets older, the blue slowly fades to grey. It does not eat plants or animals but mushrooms and other fungi.
Lives in
The south-western United States and northern Mexico
Length
1.4 to 1.8 cm (0.55 to 0.71 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting and does not bite people.
What does it eat?
It eats fungi that grow on logs and trees.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 6.5 seconds
How big is Blue fungus 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)
Blue fungus beetle about 0.55 km/h (0.34 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It hatches from its egg in spring and turns into a pupa in summer.
2
It lays its eggs in late summer and early autumn.
3
It belongs to a family with a funny name: the pleasing fungus beetles.
you asked
Most asked questions about Blue fungus beetle
?What does the blue fungus beetle eat?
It eats fungi growing on logs and trees.
?Why does the blue fungus beetle turn grey?
Its blue wing cases slowly turn grey as the beetle gets older.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cypherotylus californicus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Erotylidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Erotylidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Blue pleasing fungus beetle
Where the facts come from
- Cypherotylus californicus (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 Joseph C Boone. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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