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7.50" x 10.00"
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2.00"
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0.88"
Overall:
13.00" x 15.50"
Assassin Bug Preying on Beetle Framed Print
by Steven Schwartzman
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Assassin Bug Preying on Beetle framed print by Steven Schwartzman. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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This assassin bug, Apiomerus spissipes, had caught a beetle in the genus Acmaeodera and had plunged a sword-like appendage into its prey to extract... more
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Artist's Description
This assassin bug, Apiomerus spissipes, had caught a beetle in the genus Acmaeodera and had plunged a sword-like appendage into its prey to extract nutrients. It's a brutal world out there. I came across this ghastly sight on the underside of a Texas thistle when I got close to take a photograph of the flower.
About Steven Schwartzman
I've been involved with photography since the late 1960s, when I got my first real camera toward the end of my two years in Honduras as a Peace Corps math teacher. From the 1970s through the mid-1980s I went through a phase of black and white infrared photography, often even in 3-D. My current period began in 1999. Call me a nature photographer and you won't be wrong, but because there's not a lot of majestic scenery where I live (which is Austin, Texas), I've gotten interested in portraying the native plants of the region, especially our many wildflowers. Along with them come occasional butterflies, birds, and other small creatures. I often think of all these subjects, even the plants, as if they were posing for portraits, so you could...
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Guy Pettingell
Bear Grylls would eat that....great shot Steven! L/f
Steven Schwartzman replied:
By coincidence a commenter from New Zealand mentioned Bear Grylls on my nature photography blog this morning.
Andrei SKY
Great capture!
Steven Schwartzman replied:
Thanks. It was quite dramatic.
Cynthia Guinn
Awesome find!
Steven Schwartzman replied:
That's how I felt.
Maria Hunt
What a capture!! Not that this fella would win a beauty contest but wow!! F/L
Steven Schwartzman replied:
Thanks. I was in the right place at the right time for this one. I'd stopped to photograph the thistle and found a drama going on.