Bronze Carabid

The Bronze Ground Beetle or European Ground Beetle, Carabus nemoralis, is a beneficial beetle in the Carabidae beetle family that hunts at night and feeds on snails and slugs–and eggs of slugs–as well as various insects and arthropods (including sowbugs, pillbugs, millipedes and centipedes).  It is also commonly called the “Bronze Carabid.”  Although it is