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A rather unusual look at a Damselfly. This is a teneral Common Blue Damselfly I found at Wollaton yesterday, being quite a cool day there were a lot of grounded inactive Damselflies on low vegetation, this allowed for this interesting angle. This nicely illustrates the complex nature of a Damselflies mouthparts, it is easy to forget that these guys are accomplished predators.
This was a 4 image stack at F/8, not my deepest of stacks, but thought it was interesting to see.
A jumping spider drags off its latest prey, a Sely's Sundragon about three times larger than itself.
Daddy kite will be responsible for food and come back to deliver it to mommy kite while they are having eggs to hatch. They usually perform food exchange in the air.
It was amazing to watch this Merlin pursuing a Goldfinch a couple of weeks ago: I was rather lucky to capture this shot as the raptor dived in for a killer blow, but missed the lucky finch by a gnat's whisker!
Just back from Safari(darkest Wiltshire Longleat Safari Park first time visit absolutely great didn't know what to expect at the park totally impressed by it all to see the animal's having space to live and roam.
Lions are very sociable and related females live together as a pride.Different males take over the pride at different times.When lions live together as a group this has many advantages;they can hunt together as a team and are able to bring down large prey.The females often have their babies at the same time, allowing the cubs to feed from any of the lionesses.Longleat has about 25 lions in the park.
Yellowfin tuna flank a female great white shark off the coast of Mexico's Isla de Guadalupe. While the tuna are a preferred prey item of the shark, their speed and maneuverability allow them to keep a safe distance from their predator. The sharks have to rely on stealth in order to ambush attach the speedy prey.
While it's not uncommon to see yellowfin tuna at Guadalupe, they seem far more abundant around the island in the past couple of years. I'm not sure it's a result of El Nino effects or not, but I definitely saw noticeably more tuna around the sharks than usual on this trip.
Mongoose : formidable predator which originates from North Africa and found in Spain . Mongoose were thought to have been introduced to Spain by the Arabs during their occupation from 8th to 14th century, however Mongoose bones have been carbon dated to the 1st century A.D. and it's entirely possible they always were in Spain when it was adjoined to N. Africa before the land masses separated
Hey guys ?!
Here the photo with my new minifig based on Predator , is not the first predator of 1987, is another Predator that i found on internet ;) .
& Days of work X.X ..... He has a lot of details and a lt of Sculped parts , the armor the head the mask e the tiny skulls on the back .
What do you think about that ??
Hope you like it ;) .
They don’t look very intimidating at this stage and are not likely to strike fear into the hearts of anything that they encounter, but they can eventually grow to be as large as the couple of alligators in an earlier post. Their mortality rate is quite high, and the odds are not in their favor as numerous predators will gobble them up, including some of the larger fish that inhabit the bayou. Some of these might be siblings, but there are two different sizes in this photo, and they likely come from two different nests. These little ones are between 18 and 24 inches long. Good luck to these little lizards. Photo taken on Horsepen Bayou in Alligator Alley.
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This well camouflaged wheel bug had just captured dinner, when I wandered by and accidentally caused her to drop it. Though annoyed, she patiently climbed to a good spot to wait for some other yummy bug to pass by.
This is intended as an artistic image and colors have been altered. An unedited photo of this same wheel bug can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/61357175@N08/15219561470/in/photoli...
An unedited image of this wheel bug with her lost prey can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/61357175@N08/15150418689
The wheel bug (Arilus cristatus), in the family Reduviidae, is one of the largest terrestrial true bugs in North America, being up to 1.5 inches (38 mm) in length. A characteristic structure is the wheel-shaped pronotal armor. They are predators upon soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars, Japanese beetles, etc., which they pierce with their beak to inject salivary fluids that dissolve soft tissue. Because most of their prey are pests, wheel bugs are considered beneficial insects. The are as beneficial to the garden as ladybugs. They are notourious for eating stinkbugs.
Wheel bugs are common in eastern North America, although many people in the region have never seen them. They are camouflaged and very shy, hiding whenever possible.
Wheel bugs are highly regarded by organic gardeners because they consume a variety of insects and their presence indicates a healthy, pesticide-free ecosystem.
The wheel bug has a characteristic dorsal crest, shaped like a wheel or cog. It moves and flies slowly, and in flight produces a noisy buzzing sound. As with other assassin bugs, its proboscis arises from the anterior end of its long, tubular head and unfolds forward when feeding. The bug plunges its beak into its victim, pinning its prey with its front legs. It then injects enzymes into the victim, paralyzing it and dissolving its insides, and proceeds to drain the resulting fluids. The bite of a wheel bug is very painful and may take months to heal (sometimes leaving a small scar), so caution is highly advised when handling them.
The wheel bug is also noted to be very vicious in the wild, and cannibalistic behaviors between them have been noted; for example, nymphs may prey on one another and the female may feed on the male after mating is concluded.
It possesses two scent glands (red-orange in color) that can be everted from its abdomen, usually in reaction to being disturbed. The scent produced by it is not as powerful as that produced by the stink bug, but is still strong enough to be detected by humans.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_bug
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I happened upon this guy by chance while out shooting one day. He was so intent on hunting for food that he let me get much closer to him than I normally would have been able to. As you can see, we were both successful that day!
O'Shaughnessy Dam - Powell, OH
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It pains my heart to see one of our most iconic wild birds (California Thrasher) in the mouth of a domestic cat. PLEASE, PLEASE keep pet cats indoors. Outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year. Predation by domestic cats is the number-one direct, human-caused threat to birds in the United States. The BirdsBeSafe collar for cats is a good solution to the problem If you still feel you must let your cat outdoors.
This ominous looking predator was checking out my hot banana pepper plant.
Handheld iP12Pro with native camera. Touched with Snapseed.