Catch fast and kill quickly: do tiger beetles use the same strategies when hunting different types of prey?
Background Tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) are fast running predatory insects preying on different small insects and other terrestrial arthropods. Prey is located by sight and captured after short and fast pursuit interspersed with pause-and-look behaviour. At least some tiger beetle specie...
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/5971.pdf |