Dr Ohba has also photographed giant water bugs eating snakes in the past.

大庭博士过去还拍到了过巨型水蝽进食蛇类的照片。

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The giant water bugs are known to only attack moving prey so it is likely that the 58mm insect captured and killed the young turtle before feeding on it.

我们知道巨型水蝽只攻击移动的猎物，所以这只58毫米长的昆虫可能是先抓住并杀死这只幼小的金线龟后才开始食用它。

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And it's perfectly normal to snack on fried insects in Thailand, where fried giant water bugs, crickets, bamboo worms and grasshoppers are ubiquitous and served in scoops for snacking whole.

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