Gardening in Southern Oregon zone 8b, with pets, past reflections, and "Tuesday Treasures" thrown in!
We've been doing a citizen science project on pollinators since the spring and I've never seen anything like this.
I've seen spiders jump at small pollinators, but this was the first time I'd come across one that had just caught one.
Oh my gosh, nature in the raw! You have sharp eyes...I have a little movie of a paper wasp and a cabbage worm, but mostly I avert my eyes.
You'd never think a spider could move quick enough to catch a bee. I can't tell what kind it was, but carrying pollen, so it has to be a bee. I think they are the only insects to have pollen baskets.
Although this is the way of nature, it still made me shudder a little bit.
It did me too! The spider knew I was there, it kept moving under the petals and I'd come back to find it up top again.
We've been doing a citizen science project on pollinators since the spring and I've never seen anything like this.
ReplyDeleteI've seen spiders jump at small pollinators, but this was the first time I'd come across one that had just caught one.
DeleteOh my gosh, nature in the raw! You have sharp eyes...I have a little movie of a paper wasp and a cabbage worm, but mostly I avert my eyes.
ReplyDeleteYou'd never think a spider could move quick enough to catch a bee. I can't tell what kind it was, but carrying pollen, so it has to be a bee. I think they are the only insects to have pollen baskets.
DeleteAlthough this is the way of nature, it still made me shudder a little bit.
ReplyDeleteIt did me too! The spider knew I was there, it kept moving under the petals and I'd come back to find it up top again.
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