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Family: Carabidae
Size 6 - 8.2 mm. Protonum, base of elytra and epipleura are red, elytra themselves are black to black-brown. Alternatively, protonum can be brown-red, as well as antennae (except 1st segment) and pulps.
Adults from March to October. It is a common species of field and meadow habitats. It occurs mainly in unshaded and semi-shaded habitats, such as meadows, dry and moist forests, heaths, pastures, fields and steppes. It can be found from lowlands to mountain heights of around 2,000 m above sea level. It can be macropterous and brachypterous.
It hides under stones, in dry leaves, under bark and in moss. It also sits on grasses and occasionally in flowers. It hunts small animals, but also eats forest mushrooms. It is active mainly at night. The larvae are also predatory. Mating takes place in the fall, the larvae overwinter and the beetles hatch in the summer of the following year. Sometimes the adults also overwinter.
Picture source: main: Magellanes
A group of dung beetles are on high alert: they’ve sniffed out a new delivery of their favorite food, courtesy of a herd of stampeding buffalos. Now, this beetle just has to roll his ball of dung back to the den – all while fighting off the competition.
Source: Youtube: Smithsonian Channel
Language: English
Date: November 30, 2020
Jiri Hulcr presents the largest collection of bark beetles
Source: Portal Vědavýzkum.cz
Language: Czech
Date: September 05, 2024
Only these small creatures enjoy one of Nature’s most fascinating inventions: metamorphosis. No other animal on Earth can hope to live three lives in one: larva, pupa or chrysalis and adult.
Source: Youtube: Go Wild
Language: English
Date: January 10, 2022
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