In only around 10% of cases is a predator smaller than its prey. This is one of those cases. (From 2016)
real about amphibians: The things are cocky. They’re so much bigger than their helpless prey---things like worms and insects---that they tend to indiscriminately snatch up anything that's a manageable size., one beetle has evolved to put amphibians in their place. As larvae, beetles of the genusfrogs and toads and salamanders to attack them, then whip around and sink their huge, hooked jaws into the attackers, slowly draining the life out of them.
for you. You’ll get the larva in your mouth and it’ll sink its jaws into your tongue, or the larva will get you somewhere on your skin---your lips or throat or flank. The larva is just too fast for you, and may be so smooth that it can repel that famous tongue of yours. But this was no crime of passion. The larva is more like a serial killer. Over the course of its development, it can take down as many as nine toads, frogs, newts, or salamanders. It’s got such an appetite because it goes through three phases, known as, in which it needs ever more food. During the first instar, when it’s relatively small, it’ll take down just one victim. In the second instar, though, it’s two or three. In the last, as many as five.
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