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Description: Approximately 14mm in length, the Cardinal is an attractive beetle, so-called because of the colour of head, thorax and abdomen. Adults usually seen between May and July and often found under flaking bark or in rotting timber. In sunny weather known to visit flowers to hunt for small insects. Carnivorous larva lives in rotting wood. Rather local in England and Ireland.
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