Shore sexton beetle
The shore sexton beetle is a shiny black beetle that helps clean up nature. It finds dead animals and eats them, together with the maggots living there. It has a little bump near the end of each wing cover.
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Fun facts
Its larvae gather in big, tidy groups to eat together, which helps them grow faster and bigger.
The larvae crowd around the warmest spot, and if the warm spot moves, they move too.
A female lays 50 to 70 eggs at a time in the ground near her food.
Its wing covers are shorter than its body.
Scientists who study crime scenes find this beetle useful.
Most asked questions about Shore sexton beetle
?What does the shore sexton beetle eat?
Dead animals and the maggots that live on them.
?Does the shore sexton beetle live on the shore?
Not really. Its name means of the shore, but it mostly lives in woods and fields.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Necrodes littoralis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Silphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Silphidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Necrodes littoralis (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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