'Predator' might sound a little straightforward and kind-- I won't go into it here, but if you want a bit of a horror story, look up the life cycle of Tachinid flies. They are considered beneficial insects since they consume some others that might cause trouble (caterpillars of certain sorts for example) but they don't just hunt them, it's about the larvae.... The adults mostly feed on nectar from flowers and manage to look both pretty and scary while doing it- I think they are super cool! Sounds like a gentle life, visiting flowers, but there is the little matter of where - or on whom!- they lay their eggs... This species is Hystricia abrupta, sometimes called Bee-like Tachinid Fly; to me there is very little Bee-like about it but perhaps to some predators or potential victims the generally orangey hairy look is enough to make it seem like a bee. This was my first sighting (same plant over a couple of days in September)of this species, hoping eggs were laid and I get to see them again next year (some species have a life cycle that may take more than a year, if I understood properly). It's on Aralia racemosa grown from wild Ontario seed in my Alberta garden. It is very large (over time) herbaceous plant that makes tons of tiny flowers that are loved by insects- especially wasps in a myriad of shapes and sizes (yellowjackets et al are just the tip of the iceberg in wasp diversity) and many kinds of flies among others. In this vid if you watch you will see a lot of things- many tiny- flitting about, and that's just a tiny part of what was there over the time the plant flowers (weeks). I'll be posting pics on my socials and here's a blog post to pull it all together: https://spectra.video/w/vU2VU9XxgdheTNjwmkUsMi Music excerpt: Malkauns - by Aditya Verma