Pictured rove beetle
The pictured rove beetle lives on sandy beaches and has no wings at all. Its wing covers are short, so most of its long body shows. By day it hides in the sand, and at night it comes out to hunt.
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Fun facts
Its colour matches the sand. On dark sand in the north it is dark, and on pale sand in the south it is pale.
It sometimes waits still for prey, and sometimes walks around looking for it.
During the day it hides in the wettest, softest sand or under seaweed.
A mother carries only two or three eggs and lays them one by one in the sand.
Most asked questions about Pictured rove beetle
?Where does the pictured rove beetle live?
On sandy beaches along the west coast of North America.
?Can the pictured rove beetle fly?
No. It has no wings and runs across the sand instead.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thinopinus pictus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Staphylinidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pictured rove beetle (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 unknown author. CC-BY-SA-3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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