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Adults feed on fruits, stalks, and leaves.
It was an apparently unmated female which perhaps arrived as a larva within an imported bromeliad. Other species of Cholus attack palms and grasses. Diastethus bromeliarum Champion is a species about which we have no life history information. Its name suggests it was collected from a bromeliad, and it probably eats bromeliads. It is possible that some of the five other species of Diastethus known from Mexico and Central America also do so.