Smooth ground beetle
Carabus glabratus
The smooth ground beetle is a big ground beetle that likes cool places. It lives in the north of Europe and high up in mountains. It runs over the ground looking for something to eat.
Lives in
Central and Northern Europe, up to the Arctic Circle, in cool forests and mountains
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is best to look at it and let it run on its way.
What does it eat?
Like other big ground beetles, it hunts small creatures it finds on the ground.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Smooth 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 as far north as the Arctic Circle.
2
It is a cold-loving beetle that lives in the far north and in mountains further south.
3
It is a ground beetle, a big family of fast runners that mostly stay on the ground.
you asked
Most asked questions about Smooth ground beetle
?Is the smooth ground beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?Where does the smooth ground beetle live?
In Central and Northern Europe, in cool forests and in the mountains.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Carabus glabratus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Carabus glabratus (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 Dodoni. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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