Elephant shrews mainly eat insects, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, and earthworms. They eat flies, crickets, caterpillars, moths, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, earthworms, and snails. Also taken are crayfish, snails, spiders, earthworms, scorpions, leeches, millipedes, and centipedes. Other prey include earthworms, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, sow bugs, and snails. The adult diet includes crickets, worms, insects, spiders, slugs, centipedes, and millipedes. Freshwater crabs, centipedes, millipedes, and spiders are also taken. Animals parasitised include molluscs, woodlice, millipedes, insects, mammals, and amphibians. Over 50 species of other arthropods have been described (spiders, centipedes, millipedes, and isopods). Other invertebrates preyed on by "D. crocata" include silverfish, earwigs, millipedes, burying beetles and crickets. Other invertebrates eaten include spiders, millipedes and earthworms. Amphipods, millipedes and centipedes are also quite common in their diets. The differences between millipedes and centipedes are a common question from the general public. It eats prey such as beetles, millipedes, and slugs. Slugs, snails and millipedes attack seedlings, leaves and flowers. Pill millipedes and pillbugs appear superficially similar to the naked eye.