what eats beetles?

Question

I am making a food web and I would like to know what comes after beetles and then even further...

What kind of birds?

Answer 1

Beetles, being the largest order of insects on Earth, occupy a vastly diverse set of ecological niches. There are so many different kinds of beetles that it is virtually impossible to point to a single critter and say 'that critter eats beetles', or 'that critter is eaten by beetles'.

Here are a few beetles and their food webby interactions:

Wood boring beetles like Cerambycids and Buprestids burrow into dead or dying trees, their larvae chew extensive galleries under the bark. They are the favourite prey of creatures like woodpeckers, and ichneumonid wasps like Megarhyssa drill into the wood with their ovipositors to lay their parasitic young in the beetle larvae.

Bark beetles (Scolytidae) and Ambrosia beetles also carve galleries under the bark of trees. Many carry specific species of fungus from tree to tree, which then infests the entire tree. The beetles feed on growing fungal mass. Some of the fungi, such as the one that causes Dutch Elm Disease, can be quite lethal to the tree.

Predacious diving beetles (Dytiscidae) are active and voracious predators in many freshwater ecosystems. Both adults and larvae will feed on fly larvae, crustaceans, even tadpoles and small fish. In turn, they are eaten by larger fish, larger diving beetles and dragonfly larvae.

Rove beetles (Staphilinidae) are found in almost every ecosystem on land. They are predatory, mostly feeding on other insects and invertebrates. Some even live inside ant and termite colonies, and some have taken to hanging out on mammals and eating the fleas and lice that cling to the mammal's hair. They are eaten by any larger predator, including birds, spiders, larger rove beetles, and shrews.

Ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae) are voracious predators as larvae and adults, eating large amounts of aphids and other small insects. Not much eats them, however, due to the distasteful chemicals they produce in their bodies.

Many of the insectivorous mammals will, of course, mostly eat beetles since beetles are the most common insect. These include not just the members of the actual Order Insectivora (shrews, hedgehogs, tenrecs, and moles), but also things like elephant shrews, many opossums, and bats.

Studies of the remains of insects found in bat poop find a large number of beetle parts. This could be because the hard elytra of beetles tend to survive the trip through the bat's digestive system better than the soft squishy bits of a mosquito, but could also be because those hard, stiff elytra tend to make beetles much easier to detect with chiropteran sonar, and also make the beetles less swift and maneuverable in flight, making them easier to catch than hoverflies or midges. Either way, it seems that beetles make up a much larger proportion of a bat's diet than the mosquitoes they are always lauded for controlling.

Hope all this is of some help to you.

Answer 2

What Eats Beetles

Answer 3

Frogs? Lizards? Birds? Mantis?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I have beetles eating my peaches? what can I do?

Answer 6

it really depends on the specific beetle, but generally speaking, amphibians, fish, birds, reptiles, other insects and arachnids and even mammals eat beetles of one kind or another.

Answer 7

Cambodians

Answer 8

Hedgehogs, monkeys, birds, lizards, snakes, fish and some other parasitic insects.

Answer 9

what comes after eating beetles is copious vomiting

Answer 10

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