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This beetle seemed to be very interested in the caste-off skins of some caterpillars.
Spotted on Apr 28, 2013
Submitted on Jun 12, 2013
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Martini, at first I thought that must be what was happening, but I couldn't quite believe it as there were so may dried up bodies around. Thought it must be their moult. Oh well there were hundreds of the caterpillars, enough to go round!
This is a predatory stink bug eating (rather, drinking) the caterpillar. It seems only the skin is left. Here is another bug eating an ant in a similar way. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/791...