ABOVE: Diving beetle eggs (circled in red) laid on frog spawn hatch within hours of the emergence of the tadpoles the beetle larvae feed on. JOHN GOULD The paper J. Gould et al., “Diving beetle ...

A predatory diving beetle, hanging out near the surface of a pond, watching with its myriad insect eyes (predatory diving beetle larvae have 14 eyes and 28 distinct retinas), grabbing a tadpole or ...

Sunburst diving beetles, also known as "water tigers," are efficient predators that depend on their eyes to help them nab their mosquito prey. And the larvae are as deadly as the adults, striking ...

The Sunburst Diving Beetle has great eyesight, in part due to a bifocal lens. The larvae of the beetle go through multiple molting periods in their trek to adulthood—which means it reshapes its ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Once the grass frogs of Predjama have successfully mated, it will take two weeks for the tadpoles to emerge. But a threat still abounds, in the ...

Shannon Werner, Elke K. Buschbeck. Rapid and step-wise eye growth in molting diving beetle larvae. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2015; 201 (11): 1091 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-015-1040-5 ...

The research focused on eye growth during the larval stages of the Sunburst Diving Beetle - which lives in creeks and streams around Arizona and the western United States. In its larval form, the ...

An attack on a neonate garter snake by a Dytiscus sp. larva was witnessed. The snake died within 7 minutes of the attack. The Coleopterists Bulletin publishes research on the systematics and biology ...

Species: Thermonectus marmoratus, larvae of the sunburst diving beetle Habitat: Small ponds and streams in south-western US If you struggle to keep track of your glasses, spare a thought for the ...

The beetle larvae killed up to three tadpoles an hour, often discarding a half-eaten one if another was close by. “None of these behaviors were documented before,” Valdez says.