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When the frog makes its move, the beetle turns the tables. It jumps onto the amphibian’s head and bites down. Then it drinks its would-be predator’s fluids out like a froggy Capri Sun. nyti.ms/31RFbgn
When Bugs Crawl Up the Food Chain (Published 2020)

When Bugs Crawl Up the Food Chain (Published 2020)

We usually think of insects as meals for vertebrates such as frogs. But arthropods may turn the tables more often than you think.

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If you had any doubt as to how badass preying mantises are: "Spiders represented over half of all predatory events and were the main predator for all vertebrates EXCEPT BIRDS, WHICH WERE MOSTLY PREYED UPON BY PRAYING MANTIS!"
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Say hello to the world's first venomous frog sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/…
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It's a tadpole eat tadpole world. Meet the cannibalistic and predatory tadpole of Australia. doi.org/10.1111/eth.12995 publish.csiro.au/zo/ZO19065 @CSIROPublishing @wileyecology @wileyinresearch #frogs #herpetology #WildOz #mosquito theecospace.wordpress.com/20…
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