It's easy to imagine that all of the great life and death struggles of the animal kingdom take place on the searingly hot plains of Africa, but this battle took place in a slightly damper and cooler environment. If you look closely enough, the coastal forest of northern Scotland is teeming with life; it's just on a much smaller scale. Which is good - walking the dog wouldn't be much fun if there was a reasonable chance of being eaten.
This moth encountered a small spider and, despite the obvious size difference, the spider decided that it had found lunch. The spider attached itself to the tail of the moth and clung on as the moth tried every trick in the book to dislodge its unwelcome passenger. I'm guessing that some form of poison was injected by the spider though, as the relatively enormous moth succumbed in surprisingly quick time.
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