Mountain monkey beetle
The mountain monkey beetle is a small beetle covered in tiny shiny scales. The scales can make it look pale green, blue-green or yellowish, shimmering like a butterfly wing. It loves to visit flowers in meadows and gardens.
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Fun facts
Old beetles lose most of their scales and turn from green to brown.
Its back legs are quite long and end in a single claw.
Males have black legs, while females have reddish legs and are usually brown.
You can find the grown-ups from May to September.
Most asked questions about Mountain monkey beetle
?What does the mountain monkey beetle eat?
The beetles eat pollen from flowers, and the larvae eat roots in the soil.
?How big is the mountain monkey beetle?
It is about 9 to 12 millimetres long, about the size of a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hoplia argentea
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Hoplia argentea (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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