A mum and her eight-year-old son were stunned when they saw a spider devour a bumble bee during a visit to a zoo.
Abigail Marks filmed the spider attack, and hopes to find out what type of creepy crawly it was.
She was at Edinburgh Zoo when it happened, the Daily Record reports.
Zoo bosses have made it clear that the huge spider had not escaped from any of its enclosures.
Initially fearing the critter was an escaped exotic spider, Abigail decided to film the creepy-crawly viciously attacking a bee on the ground.
She now hopes to identify the species in case it is of the more sinister and poisonous variety.
Abigail said: “It was a bit random. My son had gone to put some stuff in the bin and I was just standing around and noticed the encounter between the spider and the bee.
“I was thinking ‘I wonder if that’s an escaped spider’. I just thought it was quite bizarre and I wanted to identify it.
“I was just slightly worried that it was an exotic spider and if it was, I could report it to the zoo without looking like a complete lunatic.
“It’s probably something really normal but I’ve never seen a spider try to kill a bee before.”
The footage shows the brown spider pinning a struggling bumblebee to the ground on its back.
It then repeatedly lunges at the winged-critter, appearing to bite it on the body multiple times.
She added: “I made my son get a stick and separated the bee and the spider because we couldn’t take it anymore. But when we came back, the bee was dead.
“It’s probably a really normal, boring spider that likes attacking bees but I just want to be sure.”
A spokeswoman for Edinburgh Zoo said: "To be clear, the only spiders we have at the zoo are tarantulas (all present and correct!) and the native species living in our grounds.
"The spider in the video is a native spider."
