Golden ground beetle
The golden ground beetle shines in gold and green like a little jewel. It has orange legs and orange feelers. It cannot fly, but it runs fast on the ground, hunting in the daytime.
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Fun facts
Each wing case has three wide grooves running from front to back.
It grabs its food with its jaws and sprays it with special juice that makes it soft before eating.
Its babies, the larvae, go hunting only at dawn.
It can live about two years and spends the winter under stones or moss.
Sometimes it even climbs up into trees.
Most asked questions about Golden ground beetle
?Can the golden ground beetle fly?
No. It cannot fly, but it is a fast runner.
?What does the golden ground beetle eat?
Insects, snails and worms, including garden pests like the Colorado potato beetle.
?How big is the golden ground beetle?
It is about 1.7 to 2 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Carabus auratus
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1761
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Carabus auratus (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 Soebe. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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