Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:53 pm
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Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:05 am
Ho there 
We saw this happening last night, a snail eating a millepede
We saw this happening last night, a snail eating a millepede
Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:14 am
Never knew that snails eat "meat" Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:23 pm
Harry!Maybe a scavenger?
Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:34 pm
I'll have to ask Google 
Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:35 pm
Snails and slugs have evolved to eat just about everything; they are herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous, and detritivorous (eating decaying waste from plants and other animals). There are specialist and generalist species that eat worms, vegetation, rotting vegetation, animal waste, fungus, and other snails.
Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:41 pm
Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:34 pm
Thanks Lis 
Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:45 am
You are welcome 
Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:22 pm
(Was looking thru some old macros of mine and came across these interesting creatures...)
Trash Bugs or Junk Bugs (It looks like a homeless vagabond carrying all his possessions strapped to his back.)
Florida, USA
In reality, the junk bug is actually a cold blooded killer. Study the heap he carries closely. Those aren’t just bits of leaves and dirt on his back.The heap is made up of dead bodies.
The junk bug, also known as an aphid lion, is a voracious predator, common around the world. The bug is actually the larval stage of the green lacewing, a delicate and lovely flying insect.
Here are some of the adults taken in the Kagalagadi
Green Lacewing or Golden Eyes Chrysoperla sp.
Nov. 2013 KTC in Kgalagadi
Oct., 2013 Nossob in Kgalagadi
Junk bugs heap their kills on their back as part of an intricate camouflage designed to fool birds and predatory ants. Sometimes, the bugs add other bits of debris they find, such as small pieces of lichen or leaves. The camouflage likely helps the bugs hunt as well as hide. Aphids are a favorite target, as are the untended eggs of other bugs.
They feed by stabbing soft bodied prey with a pair of sharp, horn-like mouthparts. The mouthparts are hollow. Once stabbed into a victim, the junk bug simply slurps out the soft innards of its prey like a kid sucking a milkshake through a straw.
Then the empty and lifeless husk is added to the gruesome pile and the junk bug scurries on, looking for his next victim.
https://www.al.com/live/2012/11/junk_bu ... at_lo.html
Trash Bugs or Junk Bugs (It looks like a homeless vagabond carrying all his possessions strapped to his back.)
Florida, USA
In reality, the junk bug is actually a cold blooded killer. Study the heap he carries closely. Those aren’t just bits of leaves and dirt on his back.The heap is made up of dead bodies.
The junk bug, also known as an aphid lion, is a voracious predator, common around the world. The bug is actually the larval stage of the green lacewing, a delicate and lovely flying insect.
Here are some of the adults taken in the Kagalagadi
Green Lacewing or Golden Eyes Chrysoperla sp.
Nov. 2013 KTC in Kgalagadi
Oct., 2013 Nossob in Kgalagadi
Junk bugs heap their kills on their back as part of an intricate camouflage designed to fool birds and predatory ants. Sometimes, the bugs add other bits of debris they find, such as small pieces of lichen or leaves. The camouflage likely helps the bugs hunt as well as hide. Aphids are a favorite target, as are the untended eggs of other bugs.
They feed by stabbing soft bodied prey with a pair of sharp, horn-like mouthparts. The mouthparts are hollow. Once stabbed into a victim, the junk bug simply slurps out the soft innards of its prey like a kid sucking a milkshake through a straw.
Then the empty and lifeless husk is added to the gruesome pile and the junk bug scurries on, looking for his next victim.
https://www.al.com/live/2012/11/junk_bu ... at_lo.html