Hairy-horned springtail-hunter
The hairy-horned springtail-hunter is a ground beetle with hairy feelers. It runs about in shady, damp places near water. As its name says, it is a hunter of springtails, tiny jumping creatures that live in the soil.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It is a ground beetle, a beetle that runs fast on the ground instead of flying a lot.
It lives in a huge area, from Ireland and Estonia to Japan, Alaska and Canada.
One kind of it lives around the Bering Sea, between Russia and Alaska, and is called the Bering springtail-hunter.
Most asked questions about Hairy-horned springtail-hunter
?Where does the hairy-horned springtail-hunter live?
In Europe, Asia and North America, in shady and damp places near water. It lives in Estonia too.
?What does the springtail-hunter eat?
Springtails and other tiny creatures it finds on the damp ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Loricera pilicornis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Loricera pilicornis (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 Siga. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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