Show HIE IRONY 01 LAWS by S B P durrant Bur rant hanger ranger naturalist in bryce zion nature notes nature seems somei sometimes times to be just a trifle too hard many times the plan ot of it all Is just a little different from what we would have it had we been the formulator As I 1 gaze around me the proof comes to me that in nature it you are not eating you are being eaten one morning as I 1 was working around the museum my attention was arrested by what I 1 saw on the window sill just adjacent to the door of the building I 1 beheld behold another ot of s tragedies one f form orm was another the predator was the common daddy long legs we are all familiar with the long eight legged creature the victim was one of the small moths Cat ocia ocla sp spa the daddy long legs came scam 1 poring over the smooth board of the sill until he was close to ithe the moth which was resting naturally the moth was at a disadvantage being a nocturnal flyer when the daddy long legs was close he stopped as it he was planning his then he seemed to just walk right over the unsuspecting moth thus sus over his quarry the body was lowered until the fangs were mere brought into play on the victim the moth fluttered but was unable to break through the mesh of the legs which were all around him like an octopus with the fangs the preda tor moved from one segmental joint to another As a vulnerable spot was reached the process of tilling filling his body with the life juices of the moth proceeded very rapidly the victim of the daddy long legs struggled valiantly against such a valiantly against such a voracious onslaught but with no avail the struggle gradually grew eaker and weaker until death over took the victim proceeding from one segment ito to another until he had left only the empty hulk of the litle gray moth he then moved away the body of this vampire was distended until it appeared to have reached the point of rupture the last I 1 saw of the creature was as he worked his way into the crack between the to hide and agest the copious meal |