How Do Blue Bottles Eat?
How and What Do They Eat? Bluebottles Are Active Fishers, Dragging Their Tentacles Through the Water in Search of Prey. They Catch, Sting and Kill Fish and...
How and what do they eat? Bluebottles are active fishers, dragging their tentacles through the water in search of prey. They catch, sting and kill fish and other small marine life, and then the main fishing tentacle contracts the prey towards the mouths (yes, plural) of the bluebottle.
How do Bluebottles feed?
Feeding and diet
Bluebottles feed mostly on larval fish, molluscs and small crustaceans such as copepods and amphipods. The digestive polyps are the 'stomachs' of the colony and respond quickly to the presence of food, wriggling and twisting until they fasten their flexible mouths to it.
Do Bluebottles eat?
How and what do they eat? Bluebottles are active fishers, dragging their tentacles through the water in search of prey. They catch, sting and kill fish and other small marine life, and then the main fishing tentacle contracts the prey towards the mouths (yes, plural) of the bluebottle.
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