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Death of a grasshopper – potentially squeamish!
Hello,
After a day of torrential rain, the water dragon living under our house came out looking for food and found a grasshopper. The insect was almost as big as the water dragon and must have been quite sluggish as it didn’t seem to realize the threat!
The reptile ran around the insect and approached it head on to bite down on its head – this might be an instinctual strategy to disable it quickly whilst avoiding the spikes on the powerful hind legs? Initially, we thought that lizzie had bitten off more than she could chew, but over the period of 20 to 30 minutes, she polished of the insect; legs, wings and all! An awesome display of nature at work; one life sacrificed so that another may grow stronger!
Canon 40D with 70-200 F4 L IS, hand-held hanging out the lounge room window. ISO 400, 1/250 sec at F5. The IS was working overtime here, in the low light conditions, definitely saving the picture from camera shake. Full frame with a couple of crops from the same shot.
Thanks for looking!
Dennis
PS - our thoughts are now with those in N NSW where the line of storms moved onto
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