Dinner!

[Kwazy]

It's a scary world if you're a bug. One moment you're pollinating, the next - you're dinner!

Ambush bug slurping up a wasp

• Canon EOS R6
• RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/14
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 320

 

[Paul Iddon]

That camo is crazy! The wasp looks like it is being eaten by a flower bud.

Paul.

 

[Kwazy]

That camo is crazy! The wasp looks like it is being eaten by a flower bud.

Yep. Most of the time I see the prey bug, and take a few pictures of it before realizing that it's actually being eaten by one of these monsters. Happened more than once.