Bizarre World of Bugs Eating Bugs and Grub
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The life and survival of a bug is fragile, especially in the sobering moments of bug eat bug subsistence. Delve into the realities of the fascinating macro world of bug and photographer — where the latter is the last, if not only, one to witness the victims live or die. Not for the squeamish or those with entomophobia — better known as insectophobia — although we’ve saved a few ‘pretties’ with fascinating images of bugs simply feasting their simpler foods just for you.
‘Please don’t eat me dear ladybug.’ Photo Anderson Mancini
Ant funneling up a drop of honey. Photo Spettacolopuro
Praying Mantis. Photo Clicksy
Praying Mantis preying on a moth. Photo Clicksy
Caterpillar eating a rosebud. Photo Aturkus
Caterpillar fest. Photo Olgierd Pstrykotwórca
Monarch butterfly caterpillar. Photo Goingslo
Photo Spettacolopuro
Bug eating while … Photo Schristia
Hoverfly eating. Photo J Pockele
Burnet moth. Photo Suvodeb
Six-spot burnet moths are a day-flying black/blue and red moths — the wings are a shiny black and blue color with 6 bright red spots with wingspan of 30 to 40 millimeters. The hind wings are crimson with a blue/black border. Their antennae, which they use for touch and smell, are club shaped which is unusual for a moth. The bright colors are for warning predators not to eat them as they contain cyanide which makes them poisonous creatures.
Green Katydid feeding on a Jonquils flower. Photo Aussiegall
Dragonfly eating. Photo Clicksy
Red Dragonfly. Photo Olgierd Pstrykotwórca
Female Long-tailed Skimmer. Photo Clicksy
Feeding dragonfly. Photo Clicksy
Caterpillar in Venus Fly Trap. Video Schill
The speed at which traps close generally depends on health and temperature of the overall plant. This action happens once one of the small trigger hairs is touched twice in a row by an insect. Thus, dead bugs don’t get “eaten” — without repeated triggering after closing, the trap thinks it “missed” and will re-open over the next day.
Wasp feasting on a caterpillar. Photo Macrophile
Photo Roger Shultz
A Crab spider eating a Common Grass Blue Butterfly. Photo Zac Declerck
Spider devouring a bug. Photo Sergey Gabdurakhmanov
A spider takes a lady bug for dinner. Photo Fdecomite
Spider wrapping a bee. Photo Divine Harvester
Drosera bug. Photo Jeans Photos
Drosera bugs (2mm) walk around on the Drosera plants eating the bugs and cleaning the old bugs out of the lamina of the plant. They have a great system — the plant catches the bugs and gets what goodness it needs, then the bug does the housecleaning and has a feed at the same time.
More Drosera bugs (4mm). Photo Jeans Photo
Ant having a fiber fest. Photo Spettacolopuro
It’s now become an ant party. Photo Spettacolopuro
Wheel bug eating a Japanese beetle. Photo Audreyjm529
Milkweed assassin bug and victim of prey. Photo Leslie Kirkland
Snail eating a worm. Video Jeff Turner
This is an amazing collection of photos. I find the insect world fascinating. It is so cool how some plants and insects have evolved together to have mutually beneficial relationships.
nice photo , thanks…
We seldom can see thees in our daily life
This post is the research work on insects. Photographer has nearly covered all the all the instincts of insects.
These photos and video are awesome. Use to have a Venus Fly Trap when I was younger. I find them to be fascinating.
WOw,very beautiful,This is an amazing collection of photos
awesome pics yet quite gross..haha..I hate insects…but these are great shots..
This column is the analysis plan on insects. Photographer has about covered all the all the instincts of insects
Photographer has nearly covered all the all the instincts of insects.The plant catches the bugs and gets what goodness it needs
Nice pictures, people should really try and see some of this amazing wildlife themselves! There are so many incredibly diverse eco-systems in the world that are not actually that hard to get to with a little planning and care!
some of them is really bizarre
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All these species are divided up, depending on whose taxonomic system you use, of which, the largest is the Beetles, or Coleoptera, with 125 different families and around 500,000 species they are an incredibly diverse group of animals. In fact, one in every four animal species on this planet is a beetle.