During its lifetime, a frog will snap up thousands of insects with its sticky, extendable tongue. But if it tries to eat an Epomis beetle, it’s more likely to become a meal than to get one. These ...

Seriously, watch. It’s out of this world. The Epomis beetle can beat the laws of nature and actually kill a frog that’s much, much bigger than it. Even more, the Epomis beetle’s larvae can do the same ...

Let me get real about amphibians: The things are cocky. They’re so much bigger than their helpless prey---things like worms and insects---that they tend to indiscriminately snatch up anything that's a ...

New findings of researchers from Tel-Aviv University show that predator-prey interactions between ground beetles of the genus Epomis and amphibians are much more complex than expected. The study was ...

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 little larvae latch onto the bodies of ...

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 little larvae latch onto the bodies of ...

oads beware: The next larva you eat could end up eating you. And not just eating you, but first sapping your precious bodily fluids, then devouring you alive. Researchers Gil Wizen and Avital Gasith ...

Voracious larvae of two recently discovered beetles can latch onto frogs, toads, and other amphibians many times their size, then devour them. How the bugs entice their prey and survive their attacks, ...

Usually it's the frog that catches the unsuspecting bug for a tasty snack, but in an unprecedented predator-prey role reversal, a certain group of ground beetle larvae are able to lure their ...

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.

We usually think of insects as meals for vertebrates such as frogs. But arthropods may turn the tables more often than you think. By Cara Giaimo Epomis beetle larvae look delicious to frogs. They’re ...

Discover how Epomis beetles predation turns the tables on frogs and salamanders, with larvae luring and consuming amphibians. Their larvae eat nothing else, and they have an almost 100 percent success ...