A crab spider with its prey, a Thick-Headed Fly (Dalmannia sp.) male, on a sheep's bit scabious flower in a Calcareous grassland.
A crab spider with its prey, a Thick-Headed Fly (Dalmannia sp.) male, on a sheep's bit scabious flower in a Calcareous grassland.
A crab spider with its prey, a Thick-Headed Fly (Dalmannia sp.) male, on a sheep's bit scabious flower in a Calcareous grassland.
Une argiope frelon femelle s'occupe de la proie, une zygène, qu'elle vient de capturer...A wasp spider femelle takes care of the prey, a burnet moth, she has just captured.
Une argiope frelon femelle s'occupe de la proie, une zygène, qu'elle vient de capturer...A wasp spider femelle takes care of the prey, a burnet moth, she has just captured.
Une argiope frelon femelle surveille de près la proie qu'elle a emmaillotée pour la consommer plus tard...A wasp spider femelle keep watch the prey she has swaddled for later consumption.
The tiny male wasp spider still alive approaches the large female, if it can mate, it will often leave a part of its genitals to hinder the procreation of other males before attempting, sometimes successfully, to escape before the female catches him.
A crab spider with its prey, a honeybee on an umbel of Common Dogwood.