Won't Stay Slender - _TNY_8951
This is one of the slender crab spiders (Tibellus oblongus) but eating like this will be the end of that name.
I found this one on a beautifully yellow cushion spurge (Euphorbia epithymoides) eating and if you look closely, it hasn't just caught one fly, but it is actually two of them!
I snapped a few shots of it and then we headed inside for some lunch of our own, but when I got back out I decided to check to see if it was done and saw it in the same place. It was still eating - but to my surprise it was eating something else. After finishing the two flies (I'm assuming they were mating), the spider had found and killed a hoverfly which it was devouring. Will post shots of that one as well later on.
Won't Stay Slender - _TNY_8951
This is one of the slender crab spiders (Tibellus oblongus) but eating like this will be the end of that name.
I found this one on a beautifully yellow cushion spurge (Euphorbia epithymoides) eating and if you look closely, it hasn't just caught one fly, but it is actually two of them!
I snapped a few shots of it and then we headed inside for some lunch of our own, but when I got back out I decided to check to see if it was done and saw it in the same place. It was still eating - but to my surprise it was eating something else. After finishing the two flies (I'm assuming they were mating), the spider had found and killed a hoverfly which it was devouring. Will post shots of that one as well later on.