Bug card No. 2014 of 4,939

Great blackclock

Pterostichus niger

The great blackclock is a black ground beetle that lives in woodlands. It runs about on the forest floor among the fallen leaves.

Lives in

Europe and Asia, in woodlands

Top speed

about 1.2 km/h (0.75 mph)

On foot, estimate

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless to people.

What does it eat?

Like other ground beetles, it hunts small creatures on the ground.

A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)

Great blackclock 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

Its scientific name niger is Latin for black.

There are two kinds of it, called subspecies.

It belongs to the ground beetles, a big family of fast-running beetles.

you asked

?Where does the great blackclock live?

In woodlands across Europe and Asia.

?Is the great blackclock dangerous?

No. It is harmless to people.

Pterostichus niger (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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