Grasshopper eating a Bee

Hi Lucky, I have tried taking it out several times but for some reason it is not letting me do so :(

Just thought I'd let you know that this is in the "Snakes of the World" mission? Awesome spotting.

@ Willie, the grasshopper was not dead, in fact it was alive and well, and was feeding on this bee that I think was caught in the web.

Thanks everyone !

Yes! Thanks, KarenL.

Awesome spot! A deadly kiss!
I recently captured a large brown recluse spider for a friend that wanted one as an educational animal. On her advice, I fed it a cricket - a common black field species. I checked the following day to see how much of the cricket remained & found it very much alive - with no sign at all of the spider! A case of cricket 1 - Brown recluse 0!
It turns out grasshoppers & crickets are omnivores & will eat pretty much anything, including each other!

I wonder if it was attracted to the pollen or nectar. This is weird.

that is weird

Mindblowing visual Reza! Thanks for following me!

Nice photo Reza, I am going to speculate that the grasshopper is also dead. If it were still alive and caught in a spider web, it will generally use its back legs and push off whatever it can to free itself. I suspect that they both met the same fate. Either way, it is an interesting series.

a few species of grasshoppers are predators, but is certainly very rare, specially because this one seems to be from Acriiddae family

I could never guess that there were carnivorous grasshoppers!!! I'll show them a bit more respect from now on!!!

Wonderful series - looks like it is suspended or floating in the air as the spider web is nearly invisible!

Interesting spotting! I guess when opportunity knocks... grasshoppers answer. :-)