End band net-winged beetle
Calopteron terminale
The end band net-winged beetle is a soft beetle with wing covers that look like a net. It has a dip across its wing covers, which helps tell it apart from its cousins. It lives in leafy woods.
Lives in
North America, especially in leafy eastern forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Its larvae hunt small creatures under the bark of dead trees.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
End band net-winged beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The mother lays her eggs on dead and dying trees.
2
People see it most often from July to September.
3
Its larvae live hidden under tree bark.
you asked
Most asked questions about End band net-winged beetle
?Is the net-winged beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?Where does the end band net-winged beetle live?
In woodlands of North America, especially the leafy forests of the east.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calopteron terminale
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Lycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Lycidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- End band net-wing
Where the facts come from
- Calopteron terminale (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 Katja Schulz. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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