Wildlife
Trapping predators perform a particular type of ambush that involves constructing something to help them catch their prey before they pounce on it. For example, spiders construct webs and fungus gnats dangle a lure of sticky silk to ensnare other organisms.
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Light fantastic
Glowworms light up the roof in Waitomo's caves, luring their prey to a sticky end.
The glowworm caves of New Zealand are an incredible sight! There are very few insect spectacles on this scale in the world, but this is definitely one of them, and it's something I would love to see before I die.' (George McGavin)
Hair trigger
Timelapse shows the deadly Venus fly trap in action.
Darwin called the Venus flytrap the 'most wonderful plant in the world', yet owing to the demand for carnivorous plants as houseplants, they are now listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. The illegal collection of the plant is devastating their population in the wild. Added to that, the destruction of their native habitat and the draining of swamps, mean that these plants need a concerted effort to help them continue to survive in their rightful place – the wild.
Meat-eating plants
Living fly-paper tentacles deliver a sundew's meal.
Like an alluring octopus, the carnivorous sundew plant wraps its sticky tentacles around a mosquito that it has lured with its droplets of sweet-smelling stickiness. Then it turns the mosquito into a nitrogen-rich soup and sucks the miserable mozzy dry.
Fishing fish
Frogfish bait their own bodies to lure their prey into trap-jaws.
Frogfish bait their own bodies to lure their prey into trap-jaws.
No rules
Predators will try any tricks and tactics in the race for food.
Predators will try any tricks and tactics in the race for food.
Other Predation strategy behaviours
Take a trip through the natural world with our themed collections of video clips from the natural history archive.
Timelapse photography: speeding up life
Some of the most memorable sequences in natural history result from timelapse photography, an astonishing filming technique that opens our eyes to a whole new world.
George's marvellous minibeasts
A video collection featuring bugs and insects in amazing close up selected by insect expert and TV presenter George McGavin, with Goliath spiders, killer centipedes, ants and moths.
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Venus flytrap 
Fungus gnats
Black lace-weaver
Garden spider
Money spiders
Orb weavers