Garden bembidion beetle

Bembidion quadrimaculatum

The garden bembidion beetle is a tiny ground beetle. Ground beetles are fast runners that live on the soil.

Lives in

Europe, northern and southern Asia, and North America

Top speed

about 1.2 km/h (0.75 mph)

On foot, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless. It is a tiny beetle that does not bite or sting people.

What does it eat?

Like most ground beetles, it hunts very small animals on the ground.

A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)

Garden bembidion 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

Scientists split it into six kinds, called subspecies.

It was first described by the famous Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus in 1761.

It lives in Europe, Asia and North America.

you asked

?Is the garden bembidion beetle dangerous?

No. It is a tiny ground beetle and harmless to people.

?Where does the garden bembidion beetle live?

In Europe, in northern and southern Asia, and in North America.

Bembidion quadrimaculatum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
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