These insects are the favorite of many children but behind the pretty exterior lies an eating machine of devastating proportions which will stop at nothing to get at its next meal and involves itself in some quite ghastly goings on in the shrubbery, even involving intraguild predation (cannibalism, basically).
Altogether it is quite a remarkable life cycle, going on right under our noses.
Take a look
Image Credit Flickr User Giles San Martin
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