Mottled dingy-brown click beetle
The mottled dingy-brown click beetle is a small grey-brown beetle with lighter grey speckles. Its body is covered in thick, short hair, and its legs and feelers are reddish brown. It belongs to the click beetles, a family of beetles famous for flipping into the air with a loud click.
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Fun facts
Its babies are dark brown larvae that grow up hidden in the soil.
The larvae nibble roots, so farmers sometimes find them in their fields.
You are most likely to see the grown-up beetles from late April to June.
Most asked questions about Mottled dingy-brown click beetle
?What does the mottled dingy-brown click beetle eat?
Its larvae live in the soil and eat roots, worms and other insect larvae.
?How big is the mottled dingy-brown click beetle?
It is about 1 to 1.7 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agrypnus murinus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Elateridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Elateridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Agrypnus murinus (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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