This is a predatory mite just as small as a spider mite, by the way, one millimeter, two millimeters long, not more than that, running quickly, hunting, chasing the spider mites.

I have one gram of those predatory mites.

You see in the upper left corner, you see a single predatory mite.

And this is the whole bunch of predatory mites.

By the way, a meal for them for 24 hours is about five individuals of the spider mites, of the bad mites, or 15 to 20 eggs of the pest mites.

Have we ever heard of a dust mite?

And in 30,000 square meters of state of the art greenhouses, there, we are mass producing those predatory mites, those minute pirate bugs, those parasitic wasps, etc., etc.

And here you can see this lady in action on your left hand side just pierces, sucks the body fluids on the left hand side of the pest mite.

And so, there's a game of predator prey that's going to be, essentially, universal, really, in any kind of biological system.

Darren dust mite and his family moved in.

This is a Dionaea, a Venus fly trap hunting snails sorry for the snail.

This is a dust mite on a nanoreplica.

Bee eaters eat bees. This one has a nice blue cheek.

And after five minutes, this is what you see just a typical dead corpse, shriveled, sucked out, dead corpse of the spider mite, and next to it, two satiated individuals of predatory mites, a mother on the left hand side, a young nymph on the right hand side.

It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean.

Is it prey? Is it predator? Is it mate?

Is it a dangerous predator, or is it just the wind?

There's another top predator in the ocean, it turns out.

They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators.

That top predator, of course, is us.

The fly is going to sense this predator.

This blinds or distracts the predator.

I didn't want to go with this ruthless predator image.

There's a fourth rule when a predator's coming, get out of the way.

This is called fishing down the food chain.

And that predator is the giant ocean sunfish, the Mola mola, whose primary prey are jellyfish.

Well, it uses it to defend itself from its predators.

Now, all this changes when a predator enters the scene.

You know, the one that's been snatching all those goats down in Kiunga.

(a) International conference on Asian honeybees and bee mites, Bangkok, February 1992

One gram's 80,000 individuals, 80,000 individuals are good enough to control one acre, 4,000 square meters, of a strawberry plot against spider mites for the whole season of almost one year.

They feed on other little things. They feed on mosquito larvae.

They have sex. They hide from predators.

Scytodes doesn't use a web at all to catch prey.

The reason that the electronic jellyfish worked as a lure is not because giant squid eat jellyfish, but it's because this jellyfish only resorts to producing this light when it's being chewed on by a predator and its only hope for escape may be to attract the attention of a larger predator that will attack its attacker and thereby afford it an opportunity for escape.

The Armillaria is actually a predatory fungus, killing certain species of trees in the forest.

Here on the model you see the predator attacking.

But the small animals that eat insects are being eaten by larger animals, still larger animals.

Whenever he eats the pit viper he gets this little venom rush.

Babies left to die in ditches, the poor preying on the poor.

'Strong predation on a massive, heavily armored dinosaur illustrates just how dangerous the dinosaur predators of the Cretaceous must have been,' said Brown.

I doubt anyone has seen a giant bluefin feed.

Regions exist where the biggest food production of women is that of catching shellfish and octopus.

In the Pacific, the biomass of large predatory fish caught by longline fishing, for example, has declined by 90 percent since 1950.

So what we can see on this moving ocean is we can finally see where the predators are.