Oriental beetle
The oriental beetle is a small, shiny beetle with brown and black blotches. It spends most of its life hidden in the soil. Its fat white grubs chew on plant roots underground.
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Fun facts
To call a mate, the female does a headstand: head in the soil, tail in the air, and gives off a special smell.
After mating, the female digs back into the ground through the same hole she came out of.
Its grubs can dig down as deep as about 40 centimetres into the soil.
It travelled from Asia to America hidden in the soil of plants and flowers shipped from nurseries.
People sometimes mix it up with the Japanese beetle, which is bigger and more colourful.
Most asked questions about Oriental beetle
?Is the oriental beetle harmful?
Not to people. But its grubs eat the roots of grass and crops, so it is a garden pest.
?How big is the oriental beetle?
It is about 7 to 11 millimetres long, about as long as a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Exomala orientalis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Asia, North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Anomala orientalis (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 Bjørn Christian Tørrissen. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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