Red-collared harp ground beetle
Calathus ruficollis
The red-collared harp ground beetle is a ground beetle from the west coast of North America. It cannot fly, so it runs along the ground instead. It comes out at night to hunt.
Lives in
Western North America, from California up to British Columbia, and also Hawaii
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a small beetle that hunts other little animals, not people.
What does it eat?
It is a hunter that catches other small animals on the ground at night.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Red-collared harp ground 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 has no working wings for flying, so it gets everywhere on its six legs.
2
Scientists know four subspecies. One of them lives all the way from British Columbia in Canada to northern California.
3
People accidentally brought one kind of it to Hawaii.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red-collared harp ground beetle
?Can the red-collared harp ground beetle fly?
No. It cannot fly, so it runs on the ground.
?Where does the red-collared harp ground beetle live?
In western North America, from British Columbia down to Baja California and Arizona. It was also brought to Hawaii.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calathus ruficollis
- Named by
- Dejean, 1828
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Calathus ruficollis (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 Chloe and Trevor Van Loon. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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