These brutes are eating their way through our tadpoles. It's rather distressing to see them carrying a tadpole in their impressive jaws. Apparently they inject digestive enzymes into the tadpole with the hypodermic-like jaws and suck up the resulting soup! Gruesome but impressive beasts.
we found some of these larve in our pond this afternoon. now I know what they are. does not sound very good for our tadpoles. thanks for your publication
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