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I feel sorry about this bee :(. Nasty spider Argiope bruennichi caught her in her web. I think this is female spider, male are gray color and much smaller.

 

If you zoom you can see eyes of a spider!

 

When a prey item is first caught in the web, Argiope bruennichi will quickly immobilise its prey by wrapping it in silk. The prey is then bitten and then injected with a paralysing venom and a protein-dissolving enzyme.

Argiope bruennichi display a rather large distinction between males and females with males averaging length of approximately 4.5 mm and females averaging 15 mm. The reasons for this large difference has evolutionary and fitness background with regards to mating as well as cannibalism by the females towards the males after copulation.

The species Argiope bruennichi displays cannibalism when it comes to mating. We can see this because the sex ratio is so biased towards females later in the mating season. With so little females available, the males need to develop their own ways to potentially find and secure a successful mating like small size and proper time to find an immature female.

 

For more information you can read here

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_bruennichi

 

Enjoy in cool song :D

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgjMzYP20Qg

 

 

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Uploaded on September 23, 2016
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