Once again, the lady beetle, Cetonia, in the photo—unlike in the previous video. She is vegan, but her larvae are not. She is also highly poisonous. And its larvae parasitize various species of bees; they wait on a flower, latch onto a bee, let themselves be carried into the nest, and there they eat everything they can find. I was struck by the speed and efficiency with which this particular beetle ate a blade of grass—its mandibles must be extremely sharp.
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