Narrow-collared snail-eating beetle
Scaphinotus angusticollis
The narrow-collared snail-eating beetle is a ground beetle that hunts at night. As its name says, it loves to eat snails. Its wings are too short for flying, so it walks everywhere.
Lives in
Western North America and Quebec, from Alaska to California
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It only hunts small creatures.
What does it eat?
It eats snails, slugs, earthworms and spiders.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Narrow-collared snail-eating 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 can be dark black or deep red, depending on where it lives.
2
It likes to live in groups.
3
It lives in forests and also in farm fields.
you asked
Most asked questions about Narrow-collared snail-eating beetle
?What does the narrow-collared snail-eating beetle eat?
Snails, slugs, earthworms and spiders.
?Can the narrow-collared snail-eating beetle fly?
No. Its wings are too short, so it walks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scaphinotus angusticollis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Scaphinotus angusticollis (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 USFWS - Pacific Region. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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