I was in my garden, searching on my wife's oregano hoping to capture the tiniest of flower-visiting flying things, when I was distracted by wild fluttering at the end of one branch.
The fluttering turned out to be a brown skipper, flailing around with its proboscis apparently held in the tenacious grip of a small ambush bug.
By the time I returned with camera equipment, the skipper had stopped moving and the ambush bug had reeled it in to feed.
--Rik
Canon T1i with Canon 580 EX II flash and small softbox, ETTL mode at f/11 and 1/200 second, ISO 100.
Small ambush bug captures skipper
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Re: Small ambush bug captures skipper
Puts new meaning to cat's got your tongue.
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Re: Small ambush bug captures skipper
Good capture (for both you and the bug). I've never seen one actually grab anything, and it surprises me that they do since they don't seem at all fast.
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Re: Small ambush bug captures skipper
What an amazing disparity between predator and prey in body size, mass, and air resistance. The ambush bug must have very toxic venom?