Comments on: It’s a bug eat fish world 2.

By: gruebait

gruebait — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:08:15 +0000

For me, the archetypical monster has always been a dragonfly larva. No matter the scale; as a vertebrate, it just isn’t right to get eaten by something with more than four legs and bizarre mouthparts. It’s just not right.

By: Uh

Uh — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:51:29 +0000

Hurray for our side!

By: The Science Pundit

The Science Pundit — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:02:57 +0000

Thank you DelMarKevin! That went right into my favorites.

By: DelMarKevin

DelMarKevin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:19:21 +0000

@The Science Pundit:

Mantis vs. Hummingbird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXn-hf00cJE

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:45:46 +0000

I just want to point out that this is “number 2” because it was published by accident … it should have been in cue after Number 1, which is scheduled to be posted some time in the future. Number 1 is another insect eating a vert.

By: ThadD

ThadD — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:56:20 +0000

Wow, music so horrible. must delete from RSS must hope it gets deleted from YouTube…. uggh

By: Scrabcake

Scrabcake — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:17:20 +0000

Yup. The music just completed that one.

By: The Science Pundit

The Science Pundit — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:53:28 +0000

I'm fascinated by arthropod catches and eats vertebrate footage. This one was pretty good. I actually had low expectations owing to the bad camera angles on the failed attempts, but they fixed that for the kill. WIN!!! A few of my other favorites are the giant centipede catching a mouse, the giant centipede catching a bat, and an octopus (okay, technically a mollusk, so not as cool, but it was a cool kill) snatching a shark. (Since I included the octopus, I should also include the poisonous sea snail; it has the fastest acting toxin--which it needs when you consider that it can't exactly chase down dying prey.) But my favorite is the preying mantis catching then eating a hummingbird. I saw it a while ago on some nature program and was enthralled. I haven't been able to find it online though. The closest I've seen is a mantis hanging out at a hummingbird feeder in pounce mode, and a mantis eating a bird she already caught. I find this unsatisfactory. :-(