Garden fruit chafer
The garden fruit chafer is a big, smooth beetle from Africa. It is bright yellow with a dark brown middle, and that brown patch is sprinkled with yellow spots. It loves sweet fruit and flowers, so you will often see it in gardens.
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Fun facts
It is a helpful pollinator: while it visits flowers, it carries pollen from one to the next.
It belongs to the big scarab family, together with dung beetles.
Birds like red-winged starlings and hadada ibises love to eat it.
Its yellow pattern changes a lot from one beetle to the next, but it is always easy to recognise.
Most asked questions about Garden fruit chafer
?What does the garden fruit chafer eat?
Flowers and fruit. That makes it a minor pest in some gardens.
?Is the garden fruit chafer harmful?
Not to people. It can damage some fruit and flowers, but it also helps pollinate plants.
?Where does the garden fruit chafer live?
In Africa, from South Africa and Namibia up to Ethiopia and Egypt.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pachnoda sinuata
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Brown-and-yellow fruit chafer, Checkers tor
Where the facts come from
- Pachnoda sinuata (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 round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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