Photo: Bug Eats Millipede

I snapped this interesting photo the other day as I was experimenting with some screw-in macro lenses I had gotten in the mail.  Here in Namibia, there are millions of millipedes coiled up under rocks, soil, everyplace you dig.  So in the course of gardening there are bound to be a few casualties.  So this particular dead millipede was discovered by a yet-to-be identified “bug” (I think this is the technical term) which was frantically pulling at the millipede to get into its shell, and…um…access that sweet, delicious millipede meat.

bug trying to break into the shell of a dead millipede.  Notice the bug on ITS back.

 So I snapped the photo, and it wasn’t until later that I discovered the black and yellow bug has what appears to be a “free rider” on its back.  Is that a tick?  Or is it one of its own young?  Any southern African entomology experts out there who have any ideas?

close-up.  a smaller version of itself?

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