A nice visit to Moore Park today! I saw so many organisms, but the highlight was definitely a hapless little zebra jumper being Denied predation of a ticklebug.
I saw the jumper approach the ticklebugs (who I'd just observed mating), and went "oh, whoa, am I going to see a predation event?" and turned the video camera on. I instead captured yet another reason why it's hard to be a predator in this world!
The start of what appeared to be an attempted predation event. The boxelder bug that the zebra jumper investigated kicked the spider away, as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lQAB9sqaoY
And, slow motion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bruYHk4q0SE
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