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Fruit Beetle
Fruit beetle
Pachnoda marginata
From west and central Africa, fruit beetles are herbivores which as their name suggests they eat fruit. In captivity we give them papaya, orange, apple and small bits of vegetable.
- They live for up to 1 year (as a beetle).
- Lay eggs.
- 2.5 centimetres.
- Habitat being rainforests.
- Diurnal insect.
Crazy fact!
Fruit beetles spend most of their lives as grubs and grow bigger as a grub then when they turn into beetles. It’s called metamorphosis just as butterflies change from caterpillar to butterfly.