• 15. 12. 2024, 13:30

EP. 12. The targeting Archer fish. Just below the surface of the water is one of nature's most precise miniature hunters – the fabulous Archer fish. Able to shoot down their prey with targeted jet propelled water darts the archer fish is bulls-eye accurate. The ambushing Portia. A mere centimeter in length, the Portia spider is one of nature's most capable and intelligent hunters. A formidable serial killer of other spiders, Portia’s are fast to learn and quick to adapt. The harpooning cone shell. In an ocean full of fast moving and agile fish, those that hunt them need sure fire methods of capture. So it is perhaps surprising that one of their most deadly adversaries, is a very slow moving snail. Weapon swinging Bolas Spiders. As the day comes to and darkness sets in, one of the world's most deceptive hunters begins her nightly rituals. Dangling from the silken trapeze line she has just laid the female Bolas Spider spins a short silken thread punctuated with tiny globules and ending in one huge sticky silken bolas. Slave Making Ants. Running over almost every corner of the earth are millions and millions of tiny worker ants. Yet for some ant species, most of the workers are not their own blood. These are the slave makers trap laying Ant Lions. Throughout the sandy soils that blanket the earth there are hundreds of species of ants making a living on the land they find themselves. Yet there is one insect whose larvae makes a living on them – the one and a half centimeter, cunning, powerful, ferocious and often inconspicuous Ant lion Parasitic Pompilid wasps In the dunes of the Namib Desert is a little wasp that seeks out a very certain type of prey. Pompilid wasps, also known as spider wasps are named after the food they seek, and they are extremely good at seeking it.…which is the top of the micro predators?