Festive tiger beetle
Cicindela scutellaris
The festive tiger beetle is a flashy, shiny beetle from North America. Tiger beetles are quick hunters with long legs and big jaws. They chase down other small insects.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It may give a little nip if you pick it up, so it is best to just watch it.
What does it eat?
It hunts other small insects and grabs them with its strong jaws.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Festive 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 comes in seven different kinds, called subspecies, that live in different places.
2
Some of these kinds have their own names, like the chartreuse tiger beetle and the unicolored tiger beetle.
3
It belongs to a group called the flashy tiger beetles.
you asked
Most asked questions about Festive tiger beetle
?What does the festive tiger beetle eat?
It is a hunter. It catches other small insects with its jaws.
?Is the festive tiger beetle dangerous?
No. It might give a small nip if you hold it, but it cannot hurt you.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cicindela scutellaris
- Named by
- Say, 1823
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cicindelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cicindelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cicindela scutellaris (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 Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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