Host Call Frequency Drives Attractiveness to an Eavesdropping Micropredator Ecol&Evol

Dario dario, the scarlet badis, is a jewel‑colored freshwater fish from NE India that’s a selective micropredator, prefers heavily planted shallow streams and leaf‑litter, males display vivid red and blue bars while females are duller and shy.

i saw someone pondering jokingly like "why don't prey organisms just produce extra meat they give predators to eat", a thought i'd considered before actually. anyway once i saw the statement "a predator that kills less than one organism when it feeds is a micropredator, also known as a parasite"

or, their eyesight is much worse than the others which spares them the extra anxiety and stress of having to see me! being a micropredator is rough.

The crest-tailed mulgara is an Australian micropredator that's related to the Tasmanian devil. By the 90s it was listed as endangered. Thanks to conservation efforts with most of the ground work being done by indigenous rangers, it has rebounded expanding its range 20 fold and its population 70 fold

woukd they be the largest micropredator?

There isn't a major paper right now that's doing well. Layoffs are a regular fact of life for journalists. Yet somehow, this fucking micropredator is an actual millionaire.

Today we are celebrating the shy micropredator Indostomus Paradoxus, whose name means “strange tiny mouth”

Summer drought impacts micropredator abundance and microbial food web structure in a rewetted fen peatland
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It looks like a rotifer, and it's a regular microanimal. It's important as a micropredator in aquatic environments :)

Bill Gates invented Microsoft so he could tell the world about his penis in one word. It was either Microsoft or Micropredator. #billgates #microsoft

“A swift hunter in miniature—emerald legs poised, eyes locked, the dance of survival unfolds. Nature’s relentless rhythm, played out in the smallest of worlds. 🦟✨ #MicroPredator #NatureInAction"

Pernicious liaisons: antibiotic-depressed immune response of a livestock micropredator, the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.15.557909v1

‘Micropredator’ is probably more accurate, although ‘parasite’ seems widely used for that kind of thing.

Samuel Martins at UFL is hiring postdoc to work w/ our multidisciplinary team of scientists across the U.S. to investigate the impact of organic management on micropredator diversity, pathogen survival, & soil & plant health. It's a fun group!

Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

The mourning geckos are so dang cute when they hunt fruit flies.

"Who's a ruthless lil micropredator? Is it you? OMG it's you!"

They really are, aren't they? Go, little micropredator! Eat those bugs!

Genomic Features of the Micropredator Lysobacter sp. Hz25 Isolated from the Rhizosphere of Hedysarum zundukii https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42123384/

This is why i like the term micropredator, which is what irl bloodsuckers like vampire bats, vampire finches, mosquitoes, lampreys, etc. are