Green Tiger beetle (Cicindela Campestris)
There where brown sand beetles everywhere, like one ever 10 meters of path. But only a few of the where the green ones so I really had to look at the color of the sand beetles all the time to find a green one.
Tiger beetles are robbers which eat ants and other crawling insects. These jaws are not just to impress the females but to actually cut other insects in half.
Dutch name: Groene zandloopkever

"Cicindela campestris", commonly called the green tiger beetle, is a widespread Eurasian species of tiger beetle.
Similar species: Beetles
By Joost Thissen
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Uploaded Aug 18, 2012. Captured Aug 17, 2012 11:39 in Dijkpad, 5685 Best, The Netherlands.
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