Fiddler beetle
The fiddler beetle is a bright Australian beetle with dark brown and lime green or yellow patterns. The pattern on its back looks a bit like a violin. It is a strong flyer that zips from flower to flower.
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Fun facts
It can fly without lifting its hard wing cases, which most beetles cannot do.
Its babies live inside rotting logs and grow up there.
When it is ready, the larva makes a little room inside the wood to change into a beetle.
The grown-up beetles dig their way out of the soil in early summer.
Most asked questions about Fiddler beetle
?Why is it called a fiddler beetle?
Because the pattern on its body looks a bit like a violin, also called a fiddle.
?Is the fiddler beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless flower visitor.
?What does the fiddler beetle eat?
Grown-ups eat flower nectar, and the larvae eat rotting wood.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eupoecila australasiae
- Named by
- Donovan, 1805
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Rose chafer
Where the facts come from
- Eupoecila australasiae (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 tjeales. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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