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Saint John's Wort Beetle

Chrysolina hyperici

Classification

Class
Insecta

Chrysolina hyperici, the Saint John's wort beetle is a species of beetles of the family Chrysomelidae. Life cycle The species lays up to 2,000 eggs on the host plant during the early fall. They lay their eggs on the undersides of leaves of new fall basal growth on its host plant, St.

Distribution

Dick Belgers · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 352Germany · 265United Kingdom · 156France · 146Belgium · 6Spain · 5Switzerland · 4Luxembourg · 1