Mint leaf beetle
The mint leaf beetle shines like a little green jewel. Some of them glow gold, purple or even deep blue. It loves mint plants so much that it lives on them and munches their leaves.
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Fun facts
It has proper working wings, but it hardly ever bothers to fly.
Its babies are black larvae that live on the mint plant, just like their parents.
The larvae sleep through the winter, wake up in spring for a quick snack, and then turn into beetles in the soil.
A grown-up mint leaf beetle lives a long time and can survive two winters.
Most asked questions about Mint leaf beetle
?What does the mint leaf beetle eat?
It eats mint leaves and leaves of other plants in the mint family. Its larvae eat mint too.
?Is the mint leaf beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little beetle that does not bite or sting.
?How big is a mint leaf beetle?
It is about 8 to 10 millimetres long, about as long as a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chrysolina herbacea
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Green mint beetle
Where the facts come from
- Chrysolina herbacea (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 pjt56. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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