Love to see Pepe (and) the frog trending as top post on InLEO for da day man!

🪲🐸 The Arch-Nemesis Of Pepe 🐸 🪲

Share frog facts of the day sometimes from ones shared elsewhere or coming across them from tiem to time. This one is interesting. A little beetle that has the "power" overtake a bigger frog. Initially I replied with something like go froggie! .. what kind of a match could a little beetle be. Many such small bugs are simply eaten by frogs. But this beetle is something else. See the post for MOAR, shows a beetle paralyzing a frog to over power it and save it's life from a bigger predator in this case a frog.

So, this is a subgenus of beetles that I only heard about today, best known for being obligate role-reversal predators during the larval stage. In simple words, frogs don't eat them. They eat the frogs. And other amphibians as well 😄

Pacman frog vs Epomis and Bombardier Beetle (LIVE FEEDING WARNING)

https://www.youtube.com/dKsn5UHiPNQ

Oh, and they feed exclusively on them, at least on the larval stage! To lure them they often make prey-like movements and after evading the first strike it's time for the hunter to become the hunted. The larvae (up to 2 cm long) immediately strike back and latch using their mandibles. Then they begin to suck the bodily fluids much like a parasite. Eventually they start eating the rest of the tissues.

Find many posts from @trumpman quite interesting and this one is no expection.

Read MOAR also at Epomis' Wikipedia page

Feels good man? lol

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