One-spotted tiger beetle
Apterodela unipunctata
The one-spotted tiger beetle is a tiger beetle from North America. Tiger beetles are fierce little hunters with big jaws and long legs. This one lives in open woods, among the fallen leaves.
Lives in
North America, in open forests and leaf litter
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It might give a tiny nip if grabbed, so just watch it.
What does it eat?
Like other tiger beetles, it hunts small insects and other little creatures.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
One-spotted tiger beetle about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It hunts in the leaf litter, the layer of fallen leaves on the forest floor.
2
Scientists used to put it in a different group of tiger beetles and later moved it.
3
Tiger beetles are among the fastest-running insects in the world.
you asked
Most asked questions about One-spotted tiger beetle
?Is the one-spotted tiger beetle dangerous?
No. It hunts small insects and is harmless to people.
?Where does the one-spotted tiger beetle live?
In North America, in open forests among the fallen leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Apterodela unipunctata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cicindelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cicindelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Apterodela unipunctata (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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