[1] The species was introduced recently (circa 1975) in the eastern areas of Canada and has spread farther south and west into the United States.

[2] As a member of the family Carabidae, Broscus cephalotes is generally considered beneficial to humans due to its predatory habits.

B. cephalotes is flightless and flatter than many other species of Carabidae, which helps it hide in close spaces (e.g. crevices under stones or under bark).

[4] The opened mandibles can act as shovels or pull dirt and debris from the walls of their tunnels and deposit it outside the burrow.

[4] Additionally, the mandibles can act as shovels in the loose sand of the beetles’ coastal habitat.

[6] Some of what has been found in various beetles’ digestive tract include: plant material and various types of insects: ants, wolf spiders, Aphididae, caterpillars, Diptera, Acarina, Bibionidae, Coleoptera, adult Lepidoptera, and Heteroptera.

Additionally, the larvae of Carabidae beetle tend to be fluid feeders, regardless of their status as adults.

The mandibles are used to tear open the cuticular structures of its meal and expose the soft tissue areas within the organism.

[6] Broscus cephalotes breed in the early autumn, when the temperature is still warm and the air still dry.

[10] In many beetles in this family, higher temperatures correlate to long reproductive periods and more eggs laid.

[2] Lower temperatures correlate to a shortened reproductive period and fewer eggs produced, despite the presence of an abundance of food.

There have not been comprehensive field studies on effect of temperature on reproductive success in carabid beetles of any type.

[2] In Britain, there has been a large reduction in the area covered by heath lands over the past 150 years.

This reduction has been largely due to human activity; expanding industrial and residential areas have reduced the available and habitable heath land.

There has been concern in the past that roadways disrupt the habitats of B. cephalotes and that the roads interfere with breeding.

However, recent studies show that the sandy roadsides can link habitats and create refuges for the beetles.

[2] Most of the more recently adopted farming practices (e.g. selective insecticides and augmenting non-crop habitat) will affect the population of ground beetles, but not immediately.