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I caught this little drama unfolding on the edge of a daisy-like flower. Even together they were the size of a grain of rice and difficult to see. The weather was turning bad fast, so I took two shots at about 4X-5X and moved on, not really knowing what I had. Turns out, only life & death. I've recently been told that the predator is a rove beetle larva and that the victim is a variegated carpet beetle.