Green June beetle
The green June beetle is a chunky, shiny beetle. Its back is dull green, its sides are golden, and its head, legs and belly shine bright green. It flies around in the daytime in early summer.
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Fun facts
Its fat grub crawls along on its back, using stiff bristles on its body.
Its grub moves under the ground faster than any other scarab grub in the United States.
A mother beetle lays 60 to 75 eggs in the ground over two weeks.
The boy beetles have a tiny horn on their face.
Robins and blue jays love to catch these beetles on short-cut lawns.
Most asked questions about Green June beetle
?Do green June beetles bite?
No. They are harmless to people.
?What do green June beetles eat?
The beetles eat ripe and rotting fruit. The grubs eat rotting plant material in the soil.
?How big is a green June beetle?
It is about 15 to 22 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cotinis nitida
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- June bug, June beetle
Where the facts come from
- Cotinis nitida (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 Coveredinsevindust at English Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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