Rough violet ground beetle
Carabus problematicus
The rough violet ground beetle is a big ground beetle that lives only in Europe. Ground beetles like it are fast runners that hunt on the ground. It has even reached faraway islands like Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Lives in
Only in Europe, from Spain and Italy to Scandinavia, Iceland and northern Russia, in fields, moors and woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It is happy to run off and hunt.
What does it eat?
Big ground beetles like it hunt small creatures such as worms, snails and insects.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Rough violet ground 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
It lives in more than 25 European countries.
2
In one study, there were many more of these beetles in fields grazed by sheep than in fields with cows too.
3
Scientists think heavy cows press the soil hard, which these beetles do not like.
you asked
Most asked questions about Rough violet ground beetle
?Where does the rough violet ground beetle live?
Only in Europe, from Spain to Scandinavia and even Iceland.
?What does the rough violet ground beetle eat?
It hunts small creatures on the ground, like other big ground beetles.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Carabus problematicus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Carabus problematicus (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 Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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