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A Hungry Wasp

A wasp working on its prey, a spider, in Tiputini, Ecuador. — A wasp working on its prey, a spider, in Tiputini, Ecuador. Image: Roberto García-Roa (CC BY 4.0)

Delicious, right? This image won the competition’s category for behavioral ecology, and one can see why: In extreme close-up, we see a wasp taking apart its arachnid prey. Taken in Ecuador by Roberto García-Roa, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Valencia in Spain, the photo is a reminder that for every creature you might find scary, there’s probably something even scarier on its trail.

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