From Deep Look.

Watch turret spiders, wormlions, assassin bugs and dragonfly babies use stealth, speed and lethal weapons to dispatch their prey.

00:17 Turret spiders
04:28 Wormlions
08:09 Assassin bugs
11:39 Dragonfly and damselfly nymphs

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