Bug FAQAmara obesa
Amara obesa · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Carabidae
No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Amara obesa lives in North America. It eats seeds as a ground beetle.
Source: Wikipedia
What it eats
Amara obesa feeds on seeds.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 27 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Alaska, North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, Montana, New Mexico.
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Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
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Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Carabidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara_obesa
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.