Yellow-legged thick-legged flower beetle
Oedemera flavipes
Name means: “yellow-footed, after its yellow front legs”
The yellow-legged thick-legged flower beetle is a slim, shiny beetle that can be green or coppery. Its front legs are yellow. The male has big, swollen back thighs, as if he has been to the gym.
Lives in
Most of Europe and the Near East, on flowers in meadows
Length
0.9 to 1.1 cm (0.35 to 0.43 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Adults eat pollen and nectar from flowers. The larvae grow up inside plant stems or rotting branches.
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 8.4 seconds
How big is Yellow-legged thick-legged flower 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)
Yellow-legged thick-legged flower beetle about 0.43 km/h (0.27 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Only the male has the thick back thighs. The female's legs are thin.
2
You can find it on flowers from May to July.
3
It is often eaten by another beetle, the checkered beetle.
4
Its larvae live inside the stems of plants or in rotting branches.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-legged thick-legged flower beetle
?Why does this beetle have thick legs?
Only the males have thick, swollen back thighs. The females have thin legs.
?What does the yellow-legged thick-legged flower beetle eat?
Pollen and nectar from flowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oedemera flavipes
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Oedemeridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Oedemeridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Oedemera flavipes (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 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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