caterpillar hunter

noun

any of various carabid beetles of the genus Calosoma, of Europe and North America, which prey on the larvae of moths and butterflies

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The most notable of these, perhaps, is a large beetle commonly called the Caterpillar Hunter; it is known to entomologists as Calosoma scrutator.

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