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Not for the squeamish. A grass spider (Agelenopsis) that has captured and killed a hapless grasshopper. An exercise in ruthless efficiency, the grasshopper is at least five or six times larger than the spider. Within one night she had reduced her prey to an empty shell.

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Uploaded on September 11, 2021
Taken on September 7, 2021