Deltochilum valgum will no longer be taking any of your crap

[Pushkin]

From The Beeb;

It was rooted at the rear end of the food chain, but now the humble dung beetle is biting back.

A ferocious scarab species has been filmed in Peru attacking and eating millipedes 10 times its length.

D. valgum no longer dines on faeces. Instead, the nocturnal predator prefers to decapitate live prey with its armour “teeth” and then devour their insides.

Given the choice, I would probably join them.

Fascinating too how the littlest creatures more closely resemble tanks with legs.

After waiting until the flailing slowed down, the beetles inserted their armour teeth between body segments, prying upwards with their head while simultaneously sawing with their fore-teeth.

“During one kill we observed, the force of the beetle’s prying severed the millipede’s head from the rest of its body,” said Dr Larsen.

In the insect world, that probably deserves a :eek:

[Beware_of_Doug]

Obviously the little shit-eaters, all right ex-shit-eaters, are bucking for a name change.