Twelve-spotted tiger beetle
The twelve-spotted tiger beetle is a small dark beetle, brown to almost black. Most of them have twelve little spots on their wing cases, which gives the beetle its name. It likes damp ground near rivers and along paths.
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Fun facts
Count the spots. Most of these beetles have twelve spots on their wing cases, six on each side.
You can meet it on damp trails, roads and paths, not only right next to the water.
It lives in much of eastern North America, but not in most of Florida.
Most asked questions about Twelve-spotted tiger beetle
?How big is the twelve-spotted tiger beetle?
It is about 12 to 15 millimetres long, a bit longer than a fingernail.
?Where does the twelve-spotted tiger beetle live?
In eastern North America, on wet ground along rivers and on damp paths and roads.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cicindela duodecimguttata
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cicindelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cicindelidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cicindela duodecimguttata (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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