Catch fast and kill quickly: do tiger beetles use the same strategies when hunting different types of prey?

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Introduction

Material and Methods

Predator

Prey

Experimental procedure

Types of experiment

Prey escape potential

Prey size

Hunting strategies

Data analysis

Results

Prey escape potential

Prey size

Size preferences—carabid beetles

Size preferences—caterpillars

Predator–prey body-size ratios

Hunting strategies

Scenario of hunting prey with different escape potentials

Behavioural prey-type specificity

Behavioural hunter-species specificity

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Body parameters of caterpillars and beetles used as prey in the study

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5971/supp-1

Observations of predatory behaviour in Calomera littoralis and Cicindela hybrida

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5971/supp-2

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Tomasz Rewicz conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Radomir Jaskuła conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data are provided in the Supplemental Files.

Funding

This work was financed partially from the internal funds of the University of Lodz. There was no additional external funding received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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