Small snail-eating ground beetle
Sphaeroderus stenostomus
The small snail-eating ground beetle is a dark beetle that hunts snails. It has a narrow head that can reach right into a snail's shell. It lives in North America.
Lives in
North America, in woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It only hunts snails.
What does it eat?
It hunts snails and slugs on the ground.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Small snail-eating 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
Its narrow head helps it reach deep inside a snail's shell.
2
There are three slightly different forms of it.
3
One of its forms is called the narrow-mouthed false snail-eating beetle.
you asked
Most asked questions about Small snail-eating ground beetle
?What does the small snail-eating ground beetle eat?
It eats snails and slugs.
?Is the small snail-eating ground beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sphaeroderus stenostomus
- Named by
- Weber, 1801
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Carabidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Carabidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Sphaeroderus stenostomus (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 iNaturalist user: averagewalrus. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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