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The dung beetle became bloodthirsty!

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Potekhin, 28.01.2009 17:25

The dung beetle species Deltochilum valgum has shown scientists that herbivorous insects can become predators if the environment forces them to.
http://www.membrana.ru/lenta/?9021

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28.01.2009 18:13, RippeR

Very interesting news. I hope without newspaper fictions.

28.01.2009 19:44, Zhuk

How to live something terrible has become, ppc!

28.01.2009 21:52, Fornax13

"News"! lol.gif

http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/coleoptera/rus/greb_pdf.htm

Revision of Sceliages Westwood, a millipede-eating genus of southern African dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
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28.01.2009 23:06, RippeR

well, for someone news smile.gif

29.01.2009 11:49, Bukashechnik

Fabre also mentioned South American plates making scavenger balls for posterity. I have bronzes in the home insectarium during the laying of eggs willingly eat pieces of raw meat, ham or sausage. During trips to the Ili River, I often observed dung beetles Gymnopleurus aciculatus, which swarmed inside dead fish lying on the bank, or ate discarded fish giblets. At the same time, they did not refuse the larvae and puparia of flies that were inside the carrion. I was very sorry then that I didn't have a camera.

29.01.2009 12:28, RippeR

well, this is quite another matter - they need to see squirrels.. Ontophages are also often found on carrion and even aphodia in the genus. In my aquarium, the larvae of bronzes ate their own pupa..
But this is another matter, but specialized nutrition, so that only meat is eaten, and even in hunting for food, is already a little different.

29.01.2009 16:59, Vabrus

A. stercorosus

30.01.2009 9:05, Bukashechnik

Protein is certainly needed, and cannibalism in the same bronzes at the larval stage often happens, from its lack.
Once Georgy Vladimirovich Nikolaev told me about African plates (unfortunately, I don't remember the type), which feed on locust eggs, purposefully gnawing through the egg pods.
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05.02.2009 16:09, Dmitry Vlasov

By the way, "myasko" is eaten not only by larvae of bronzes... I once took a copper bronzer on the inflorescence of bodyak ogorodny, which gnawed all the inflorescence, and had a nice dinner phlegmatically chewing the larva of Larin( a large weevil) ... Anthrenus-witness!!!
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05.02.2009 17:23, Трофим

The crisis also affected insects. They now eat everything that comes to hand(paw).
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28.11.2015 19:57, Ксения2015

Oh, and I thought-where to offer a photo? "the sacred beetles eat the snake.
In fact, there are more than a dozen beetles, and the snake's skin is half-empty.
Belarus, op Asino, 07.09.2014

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28.11.2015 20:48, Black Coleopter

Ksenia, this is a common occurrence intersection of copro and necrophages

29.11.2015 8:23, Ксения2015

Yes, I know. And yet, they say: to see once is more than to hear a hundred times.

23.12.2015 21:06, ИНО

It is for the forest dung beetle that dead reptiles and amphibians are one of the usual food items. In the season of activity of adults of this species (and it is very long), it is difficult to walk along the forest road without seeing a similar picture (although I usually came across on the corpses of frogs).
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23.12.2015 21:08, ИНО

It is for the forest dung beetle that dead animals are one of the usual objects of forage objects. In the season of activity of adults of this species (and it is very long), it is difficult to walk along the forest road without seeing a similar picture (although I usually came across on the corpses of frogs).

24.12.2015 7:15, Ксения2015

It is for the forest dung beetle that dead reptiles and amphibians are one of the usual food items. In the season of activity of adults of this species (and it is very long), it is difficult to walk along the forest road without seeing a similar picture (although I usually came across on the corpses of frogs).

Send a photo to the studio, please! smile.gif

24.12.2015 16:21, ИНО

Well, if you please...

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08.02.2016 14:54, Kemist

This type goes in glasses with bait in the form of dead fish. I think that's enough proof
of bloodthirstiness.

24.06.2017 20:25, NIKITA TIMOSHEV

Bloodthirsty and locusts, the rear part of the pack consists of predatory individuals, and the front part of the pack is refugees.

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