Engrossingly Gross Photos of Spiders and Insects Eating Each Other

This lynx spider avoided being turned into wasp food and instead turned the wasp into spider food. Photo: Nicky Bay

These are some of the most detailed and (slightly) disturbing bug-meal photos you might ever see. You can
thank us later.

For now, here is the minicosmos at its most raw and instinctual, engaged in the same struggle to survive that
permeates every kingdom of life on Earth. Just as you see in nature documentaries on TV, the struggle has winners and losers. Except here, the drama doesn't unfold in the thundering of hooves during a savannah stampede or in the snowy, slippery chase that either leaves wolf pups hungry or ends with one fewer caribou calf.

It's in the clever — and sometimes downright sadistic — strategies used by insects and spiders to catch and eat their prey. Some of these schemes, like that of the assassin bug, are truly astonishing. Others, like the wasp that pulls the legs off its arachnid meals, make us wince.
Here, under the lens of Singapore-based photographer Nicky Bay, these daily dramas are documented in startling detail.
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