Anyhow, I like spiders, too, but this morning we spotted this mantis eating what I first took to be a little green spider of some kind:
As is often pointed out, the predators are as likely to eat one another as they are to eat what we consider to be "destructive" insects, like aphids and plant bugs. Oh well, at least they're interesting.
And, as it turns out on closer inspection, it looks like it was eating some kind of little hopper, because spiders don't have segmented abdomens.
