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Calling it an ambush bug becomes an obvious choice when you see it capturing its prey, a quick unexpected strike. It uses camouflage to be undetectable, for example, a yellow ambush bug sitting on a yellow flower petal. The predator holds the victim -- in this case a bee -- with its claws and then drives its proboscis into its victim, first pumping paralyzing toxins. Then the ambush bug liquefies the victim's interior, injecting digestive enzymes. For its third act it uses its proboscis to suck out its prepared meal.
Cruel nature in a tiny world.
Calling it an ambush bug becomes an obvious choice when you see it capturing its prey, a quick unexpected strike. It uses camouflage to be undetectable, for example, a yellow ambush bug sitting on a yellow flower petal. The predator holds the victim -- in this case a bee -- with its claws and then drives its proboscis into its victim, first pumping paralyzing toxins. Then the ambush bug liquefies the victim's interior, injecting digestive enzymes. For its third act it uses its proboscis to suck out its prepared meal.
Cruel nature in a tiny world.
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