Green carab beetle
Calosoma schayeri
The green carab beetle is a ground beetle from Australia. It is a night-time hunter. When it gets dark, it goes looking for slow animals like caterpillars.
Lives in
Australia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. If you pick it up, it makes a nasty smell, so it is nicer to just watch it.
What does it eat?
It hunts slow-moving prey such as caterpillars. Its larvae are hunters too.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Green carab beetle about 1.2 km/h (0.75 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its larvae are hunters too, just like the grown-up beetles.
2
If someone picks it up, it gives off a nasty smell to be left alone.
3
It is also called the saffron beetle.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green carab beetle
?Is the green carab beetle dangerous?
No. But if you pick it up, it gives off a bad smell.
?What does the green carab beetle eat?
It hunts at night for slow animals such as caterpillars.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calosoma schayeri
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Saffron beetle
Where the facts come from
- Calosoma schayeri (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 dhobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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