#3170 · 🪲 beetles

Garden Chafer

🇳🇱 Rozenkever ·Phyllopertha horticola

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © scarabaeus_58 · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Lauren Glevanik · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Lauren Glevanik · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Bernd Bäumler · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Netherlands:© rhinodalf · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Ommen, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 2225 BB Nizozemsko:© Jonáš Gaigr · CC BY 4.0
9. Havelte, Nederland:© René Manger · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 2051 EV Overveen, Netherlands:© tricky_vicky · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Phyllopertha horticola , or the Garden Chafer , is a beetle from the Scarabaeidae family. It is approximately 10mm in size with chestnut brown wing casings which are covered in tiny hairs. The head legs and thorax are dark green in colour. Like other chafers there are fan-like flaps at the ends of their antennae.

base stats

NL sightings 909iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 20,153iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 909 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #8 most seen of the beetles in NL.
20,153 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).