Collecting

Collecting Carabus

The genus Carabus occurs in a wide range of habitats around the world from snow and boulder fields (Orinocarabus, Oreocarabus, Iniopachus) through woodland and pasture (Carabus s.str, Chrysocarabus, Megodontus) and into streams and marshes (Ctenocarbaus, Hygrocarabus, Limnocarabus). This of course means that no one method will enable capture of all species and so we will set out the different techniques below and the type of species it should help you catch.