Blackburn's earth-boring beetle
Geotrupes blackburnii
Blackburn's earth-boring beetle is a sturdy beetle that digs into the ground. It belongs to a family called earth-boring scarab beetles. Like its relatives, it helps clean up by burying animal droppings.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other earth-boring beetles, it feeds on animal droppings and other rotting things.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Blackburn's earth-boring beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
There are two kinds, or subspecies, of this beetle.
2
Earth-boring beetles dig tunnels in the soil, and that is how they got their name.
3
It is a kind of scarab beetle, a cousin of the dung beetles.
you asked
Most asked questions about Blackburn's earth-boring beetle
?Is Blackburn's earth-boring beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?Why is it called an earth-boring beetle?
Because beetles in its family dig tunnels into the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Geotrupes blackburnii
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1781
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Geotrupidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Geotrupidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Geotrupes blackburnii (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 Robert Webster Depicted place: Mayes County, US-OK, US ( 36°17′12″N 95°19′20″W / 36.286616°N 95.32225°W / 36.286616; -95.32225 ). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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