Animal attack!

Posted on by Jeroen Verhoeff
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  • While snorkeling in a floodplainpool I felt something itchy on my cheek.

    It turned out to be this seven centimeter long baby great silver water beetle. The adults are mainly vegetarian, but their offspring like to drill holes in watersnail shells to eat them. Note the tiny brown hydras, a sort of freshwater seaanemones, attached to its jaws!

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