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The assassin bug (BBC NEWS)
This almost translucent insect moves its long, flexible legs with the slow-motion grace of a T'ai Chi master. He is mesmerising to watch, but lightning quick when required.
Tiny flies, drawn to the bat droppings, are grabbed by the assassin, held down and their bodies injected with digestive enzymes.
When their insides turn to soup, the bug sucks them dry. All that remains is a husk.
The final act of the assassin is to break up the desiccated shell of its victim and stick those fragments onto the miniscule hooked hairs on its legs; the debris serves as camouflage necessary to snare the next victim.
I think I went out with this bird.
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