Photos of interactions

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Андреас, 24.08.2008 21:58

1) a spider sucking a honey bee on an umbrella flower was swarmed by flies; 5/17/08
2) heard a buzzing sound and saw a wasp struggling with a fly, which opened its head, wings and legs; and flew away with what was left.
3) communication of ants on a compound flower bud in July on Mount Beshtau on KMV.

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30.01.2009 14:41, Stas Shinkarenko

Battle of two predators: Mantis religiosa VS Argiope bruennichi
It is not known what made argiope leave its web - whether moving, or the instinct of reproduction, its movement could not fail to notice the praying mantis that got in the spider's way:

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The predators were gradually closing in... the throw occurred in just a fraction of a second. With a practiced movement, the mantis grabbed the spider's four front legs with its front pair of paws and spread them apart. In this situation, no spider could possibly use the poison.

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While I was shooting the scene from various angles, another mantis approached this place, for the sake of experiment, I transplanted it to the grass where the "battle" had just taken place, unfortunately there was no continuation, the brown mantis simply flew to the neighboring bush

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In a way I don't understand, the mantises determine where the victim's head is. Even the cephalothorax spider did not confuse the skilled green predator - the first thing the mantis did was chop off the chelicerae and pedipalps, thereby depriving the spider of its main weapon!

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31.01.2009 11:22, Egorus

Very different interactions.

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1. Unclear, purposeful interaction, by mutual consent of the parties.

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2. Complete neutrality.

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3. A lover of the beautiful.

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4. Meat, meat, meat, meat…

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5. And life goes on.

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6. Crawled into the f. session, jumped over the object, and left.

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7. Karapuzik and the future tick.

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8. An invented interaction.

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9. To the question: - "What do ant lions eat?" - a visual answer.

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10. Insatiable.

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11. They took down a slug.

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12. I can interact with this green guy…

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13.... or with this shaggy girl.

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14. Deadly tango.

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15. Interaction with trace elements from the litter of some small animal.

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16. Cannibalism?

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17. Interaction with an inanimate object.

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18. Gawked and lost his head.

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19. Crimea. A few hornets are dozing on the screen. Suddenly one of them woke up, attacked
a dustpan, chewed off its upper wings, then dropped everything, licked his lips – and dozed off again.

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20. The alleged victim saved himself by starting to swing from side to side with a very
high frequency.

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21.Nauhodonoser

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01.02.2009 11:56, Egorus

I have one interaction that wasn't captured in the photo.
There is a video of this action, part of which I will try to post.
If it doesn't look good, I'll delete it. The mise en scene is this: near the bait
made of a mixture of jam, beer and all sorts of sugars, the lifeless body
of a hornet appeared. Whether he ate too much and got drunk, or someone stepped on him-
it is unknown. Another hornet began to resuscitate him, and it is
impossible to call it anything else. He was slowing it down and constantly trying to get
into the mouth apparatus of a fellow, either cleaning it, or something else. This
lasted for at least 10 minutes. The attempt was unsuccessful.

Just like I did when I tried to upload a video. An error was returned -
"You can't upload this type of file." Okay, I'll take a couple of still images and
post a photo later.

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