# Bug on grass

- By: Richard Bartz, Munich aka Makro Freak
- Date: 2008-01-08
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bug_on_grass.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 2.5](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/5/59/Bug_on_grass.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A soldier beetle (Cantharis livida) on Cocksfoot Grass (Dactylis sp.) The soldier beetles, or Cantharidae are relatively soft-bodied, straight sided beetles, related to the Lampyridae or firefly family, but being unable to produce light.