Spider cannibalism - perhaps shouldn't be that surprising, but this spider versus spider battle should have been a mismatch! A huge roaming Wolf Spider on the hunt taken down by a little tangled-web house spider. But the Wolf Spider crawled into a sticky ambush and the house spider, which is a relative of the Brown and Black Widows struck first slowing it down in its tangled web and injecting venom. I find this outcome pretty surprising, but these little false widows hanging around the deck with their brown egg sacks pack a bit of a punch. I was bitten by one once and it left about a pencil eraser sized fluid filled wound on my hip that took several months to completely go away. I always check the furniture before sitting down outdoors. Note the relaxing bird songs of the Eastern Towhee singing "Drink your tea" and the song sparrow in the background as the big spider is slowly digested from the inside out.
Filmed with the Canon SX70HS on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2ln5462
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