Rustic sailor beetle
The rustic sailor beetle is a soft, long beetle with black wing cases. On its neck shield it has a dark spot shaped like a heart. You often find it sitting on flower heads in early summer, waiting for something to eat.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
The heart-shaped spot on its neck shield helps you tell it apart from its cousins.
The grown-up beetles appear between May and July.
Its babies are busy from late summer all through the winter until early spring.
It likes fields and grassy meadows, but also woods with tall grass.
Most asked questions about Rustic sailor beetle
?Is the rustic sailor beetle dangerous?
No. It does not hurt people.
?What does the rustic sailor beetle eat?
Other small insects, like flies and little beetles.
?When can you see rustic sailor beetles?
In early summer, from May to July, sitting on flowers and plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cantharis rustica
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cantharidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cantharidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Cantharis rustica (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 Magnefl. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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