Marsh click beetle
The marsh click beetle is a bronze-brown or purplish click beetle covered with fine grey hairs. It lives in wet meadows, bogs and marshes. Like other click beetles, it can flip itself into the air with a loud click.
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Fun facts
If it lands on its back, it bends its body and pops up into the air with a click to get back on its feet.
You can find the grown-ups from May to August.
It is about 10 to 17 millimetres long.
It lives in Europe, Asia and North America.
Most asked questions about Marsh click beetle
?Why is it called a click beetle?
Because it can jump into the air with a clicking sound when it is on its back.
?Where does the marsh click beetle live?
In wet meadows, bogs and marshes in Europe, Asia and North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Actenicerus siaelandicus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Elateridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Elateridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Actenicerus siaelandicus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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