Ground Beetles

Hundreds of Ground beetles on a baggy of what smelled like rotting meat. Elongated, flattened beetles with slender legs adapted for running rapidly over the ground and climbing over rocks or into trees. These were climbing up trees. Many ground beetles tear their prey apart and devour it piecemeal; others inject a powerful fluid into the body of the struggling victim which first paralyzes it and then commences to digest its tissues so they may be imbibed in a liquid form.