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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Cychrini » Small Snail Eating Beetles (Sphaeroderus) » Sphaeroderus stenostomus
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Small Snail Eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus - male - female
Copyright © 2016 Seth Ausubel

Small Snail Eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus - Male Female
Southold/Arshamomaque Pond Preserve, Suffolk County, New York, USA
November 13, 2016
Size: ~15 mm
Pair found under log along with many slug egg masses.

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Small Snail Eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus - male - female Small Snail Eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus - male - female
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Contributed by Seth Ausubel on 13 November, 2016 - 4:22pm

Awesome
I'll have to start paying attention to whether I find them near mollusk egg masses as well.
… Curt Harden, 14 November, 2016 - 8:35am login or register to post comments

 
Last year
I actually saw one eating a slug.
… Seth Ausubel, 14 November, 2016 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

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