Bronze carabid
The bronze carabid is a fast ground beetle with a shiny bronze shell. It runs around on the ground looking for slugs to eat. That makes it a good friend for gardeners.
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Fun facts
Farmers have tested using it to fight slugs that eat their crops.
If it is grabbed, it can squirt its poo a long way at high speed.
Its larvae are fierce little hunters too.
The grown-up beetles can be found all year round.
It also lives in Estonia, where it is a common garden beetle.
Most asked questions about Bronze carabid
?What does the bronze carabid eat?
Mostly slugs and slug eggs. That is why gardeners like it.
?Is the bronze carabid dangerous?
No. It may let out a smelly liquid if you hold it, but it does not hurt.
?How big is a bronze carabid?
It is about 2 to 2.5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Carabus nemoralis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Carabus nemoralis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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