#3300 · 🪲 beetles

Common Asparagus Beetle

🇳🇱 Blauwe aspergekever ·Crioceris asparagi

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Mike Quinn, San Marcos · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Pierre Bornand · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Gerrit Öhm · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The common asparagus beetle ( Crioceris asparagi ) is an important pest of asparagus crops both in Europe and in North America. Asparagus is its only food plant. The beetle is about half a centimeter long, metallic blue-black in color with cream or yellow spots on its red-bordered elytra. The larvae are fat gray grubs with dark heads.

base stats

NL sightings 71iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,704iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).