June bug
June bugs are chunky brown beetles that buzz around on warm summer nights. They love bright lights and often bump into windows and porch lamps. There are more than 900 different kinds of them in America.
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Fun facts
The babies are fat white grubs with brown heads that lie curled up in the soil like a comma.
When crows peel back the grass on a lawn, they are often looking for June bug grubs to eat.
A grub can grow to about 4 centimetres long, longer than the beetle itself.
Skunks, moles and frogs love to eat the grubs.
Most asked questions about June bug
?Do June bugs bite?
No. June bugs are harmless and do not bite or sting.
?Why do June bugs fly into lights?
They fly at night and are drawn to bright lamps, so they gather around them in big numbers.
?What do June bugs eat?
The beetles eat tree leaves and flowers, and the grubs eat plant roots under the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phyllophaga
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- May beetle, July beetle
Where the facts come from
- Phyllophaga (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 Patrick Coin ( Patrick Coin ). CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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