Cheating Death - _TNY_8377
Coming home from the super-market, I noticed this red mason-bee (Osmia bicornis) stuck in the web of a rabbit-hutch spider (Steatoda bipunctata). The spider was out, trying to deliver the killing bite.
Obviously I shifted into overdrive, ran inside and exchanged my groceries for the camera and ran back out to capture the action. By then, the spider had decided it wasn't worth it and hid somewhere while the bee spent a couple of minutes struggling before getting out of the web and flew off.
Cheating Death - _TNY_8377
Coming home from the super-market, I noticed this red mason-bee (Osmia bicornis) stuck in the web of a rabbit-hutch spider (Steatoda bipunctata). The spider was out, trying to deliver the killing bite.
Obviously I shifted into overdrive, ran inside and exchanged my groceries for the camera and ran back out to capture the action. By then, the spider had decided it wasn't worth it and hid somewhere while the bee spent a couple of minutes struggling before getting out of the web and flew off.