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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Platydracus » Platydracus maculosus
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Rove beetle attack - Platydracus maculosus
Copyright © 2008 Carmen Champagne

Rove beetle attack - Platydracus maculosus
Athens/ State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Clarke County, Georgia, USA
September 13, 2008
In a comment on this photo , Stephen Cresswell writes "I once saw a Rove Beetle attack a May Beetle." That is exactly what unfolded here, much to my amazement.

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Rove beetle attack - Platydracus maculosus Rove beetle attack - Platydracus maculosus
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Contributed by Carmen Champagne on 18 November, 2008 - 12:29pm

Great record
of natural history drama!
… Jim McClarin, 27 November, 2008 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

 
Does anyone know...
... what sometimes causes these guys to go after live prey?
… Carmen Champagne, 30 November, 2008 - 9:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Hunger :-)
Most of the larger rove beetles are predacious and will go after anything they think they can kill.
… Jim McClarin, 30 November, 2008 - 9:48pm login or register to post comments

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