Garden Fruit Chafer

Pachnoda sinuata · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Scarabaeidae

Also called: Brown-and-yellow Fruit Chafer

Damages trees, gardens or crops. They damage garden fruit and flowers, making them a pest for gardens.

It lives in gardens across South Africa and neighboring countries and feeds on flowers and fruit, often destroying them.

Size

It is a large beetle with a smooth carapace.

Because they eat and damage flowers and fruit, they are unpopular with gardeners.

It is commonly found in gardens. It occurs widely in South Africa and can be found in many different habitats.

Its range includes Namibia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Egypt.

It belongs to the scarab family, which also includes dung beetles.

What do garden fruit chafers look like?

They are large, smooth beetles that are yellow with dark brown areas, yellow spots, and a yellow line across the rear of the wing covers.

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.