Common claybank tiger beetle
The common claybank tiger beetle is a fast little hunter with a reddish purple back. Sometimes its back is dull green or brown instead. It loves steep, wet slopes of bare clay, often on river banks.
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It can live for 3 years, which is long for a beetle.
Long ago, scientists tested it. Its babies were found on clay ground and on steep slopes about 46 times more often than on other ground.
It lives as far north as the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Its home is bare clay slopes, often on the banks of rivers.
Most asked questions about Common claybank tiger beetle
?Is the common claybank tiger beetle dangerous?
No. It has no sting, though it may nip with its jaws if you hold it.
?How big is the common claybank tiger beetle?
It is 12 to 16 millimetres long.
?Where does the common claybank tiger beetle live?
In North America east of the Rocky Mountains, on steep clay slopes and river banks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cicindela limbalis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cicindela limbalis (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 Matt Reinbold. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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