Bug eats turtle

Friday, May 27, 2011


A clear case of 'you're doing it wrong' from the animal kingdom:
A giant water bug has been photographed eating a juvenile turtle in an unusual predatory role reversal.

Dr Shin-ya Ohba recorded the unusual behaviour during night sampling in western Hyogo, central Japan.

Writing in the journal Entomological Science, Dr Ohba describes observing a Kirkaldyia deyrolli eating a Reeve's pond turtle in a ditch next to a rice field.

Using its front legs the giant water bug gripped the turtle, inserting its syringe-like rostrum into the prey's neck in order to feed.
BBC Nature News
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