The predator-prey relationship between frogs and beetles seems like it would be pretty obvious doesn’t it? Frog spots beetle, frog stealthily approaches beetle, frog eats beetle. Done, done and done.
A new study shows how the aquatic beetle Regimbartia attenuata can survive after being gulped down by a frog. Yes, this is the kind of world we live in. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, ...
J. Gould et al., “Diving beetle offspring oviposited in amphibian spawn prey on the tadpoles upon hatching,” Entomol Sci, 22:393–97, 2019. While studying the conservation of endangered amphibians ...
The nice thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food—just gulp, and down the hatch. The problematic thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food, which means ...