LIFE CYCLE: Northeastern beach tiger beetles have a two-year life cycle. Mating and egg-laying occur during the summer months. Females deposit their eggs in the sand in beach dunes above the high tide ...

HABITAT: The Miami tiger beetle is found only in small, sandy pockets of pine rockland habitat in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Pine rocklands are characterized by limestone outcrops, Florida slash pine ...

“The tiger beetles can only be found in these open ... The beetle can’t survive in crop fields, and its larvae are “unable to escape the impacts of tillage and are likely all killed during ...