Pine chafer
The pine chafer is a big, chunky beetle with a reddish brown or blackish body covered in white marble spots. The males have giant feelers that open like a fan of leaves. It is the biggest of the chafer beetles in Europe.
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Fun facts
It can grow up to 38 millimetres long, longer than a paper clip.
The male's fan-shaped feelers are made of many thin flaps, like the pages of a tiny book.
Its white spots are made of very short, fine hairs.
It is rare almost everywhere, even in central and southern Europe where it lives the most.
Most asked questions about Pine chafer
?How big is the pine chafer?
It can be up to 38 millimetres long, the biggest chafer in Europe.
?What does the pine chafer eat?
The beetle eats pine needles and its larvae eat grass roots.
?Is the pine chafer dangerous?
No, it is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polyphylla fullo
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Polyphylla fullo (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 Francesco Bellamoli. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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