Greater night-stalking tiger beetle
The greater night-stalking tiger beetle is a dark beetle that cannot fly. Instead it walks through old, damp forests on the west coast of North America. It likes to come out at night and on cloudy days, which is how it got its name.
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It is the biggest of the five night-stalking tiger beetles.
Scientists think night-stalking tiger beetles are the oldest kind of tiger beetle, the ones most like their ancient relatives.
In spring you can sometimes see it walking along forest trails at night or on cloudy days.
Shrews and moles are some of the small animals that hunt it at night.
Cutting down old forests and wildfires take away its home.
Most asked questions about Greater night-stalking tiger beetle
?Can the greater night-stalking tiger beetle fly?
No. It cannot fly, so it walks everywhere on the forest floor.
?How big is the greater night-stalking tiger beetle?
About 15 to 20 millimetres long, the biggest of its group.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Omus dejeanii
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cicindelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cicindelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Omus dejeani (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 Yves Bousquet. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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