Five Past Half Three - _TNY_0500
This is a female triangle spider (Hyptiotes paradoxus), enjoying the hoverfly she has wrapped into a tight little package.
I think the legs are held like that for balance, but it kind of looks like she's telling the time.
H paradoxus and the other members of Uloboridae are special as they don't produce any venom (hence the tightly wrapped prey) and it's not the triangluar shape of the spider's abdomen which gives it that name, but rather the triangular shape of the web.
Five Past Half Three - _TNY_0500
This is a female triangle spider (Hyptiotes paradoxus), enjoying the hoverfly she has wrapped into a tight little package.
I think the legs are held like that for balance, but it kind of looks like she's telling the time.
H paradoxus and the other members of Uloboridae are special as they don't produce any venom (hence the tightly wrapped prey) and it's not the triangluar shape of the spider's abdomen which gives it that name, but rather the triangular shape of the web.