Costco shopping
The dragon fly here measures in at about three inches and got caught up in the spider web - right away the spider went to work and did a complete number on the giant flyer. Wrap and rewrap to hold him in place then injected him. We saw this unfold near the roof of our house through a window and after a couple of camera shots i decided this wasn't a fitting ending to a noble mammoth dragon fly who catches lots of mosquitos for us each summer. So i rescued it.
The spider made a beeline out of the way and i freed DF from the web, and proceeded to disentangle all the webbing it had wrapped around its wings. I gave him 3 baths and lots of drinking water. He remained stunned from the poison and only made very slight movements. Between baths i left him for an hour on a rock, no sooner had i come back but another small spider decided to have another go at him. I squashed that one pronto and placed my dragon fly on an outside table safely under our porch.
Happy to report he was not there this morning. Full recovery. The spider has not yet rebuilt his web and i'm sure he's not in a very happy mood today.
Costco shopping
The dragon fly here measures in at about three inches and got caught up in the spider web - right away the spider went to work and did a complete number on the giant flyer. Wrap and rewrap to hold him in place then injected him. We saw this unfold near the roof of our house through a window and after a couple of camera shots i decided this wasn't a fitting ending to a noble mammoth dragon fly who catches lots of mosquitos for us each summer. So i rescued it.
The spider made a beeline out of the way and i freed DF from the web, and proceeded to disentangle all the webbing it had wrapped around its wings. I gave him 3 baths and lots of drinking water. He remained stunned from the poison and only made very slight movements. Between baths i left him for an hour on a rock, no sooner had i come back but another small spider decided to have another go at him. I squashed that one pronto and placed my dragon fly on an outside table safely under our porch.
Happy to report he was not there this morning. Full recovery. The spider has not yet rebuilt his web and i'm sure he's not in a very happy mood today.