No easy meal: Beetle larvae devour frogs

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 15:00 in Biology & Nature

When frogs and toads see Epomis beetle larvae waggling their antennae and jiggling their jaws, they must think, "Aha! Easy meal." But in a freaky turnabout, the larvae latch onto  their would-be predators, sucking and gnawing leaving behind nothing but a pile of bones.

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