Meet Sussi - _TNY_7985
This extremely hungry spider is a female goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) eating this male Tachinid fly called Gymnosoma nudifrons on a cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
I had some special plans for her though so I managed to put her in a small plastic container before going home and when we got there, I put her on a ox-eye daisy in front of my neighbour's house.
I've named her Sussi and apparently she was very hungry as not fifteen minutes later, I found her having caught and was eating another fly. Next day she had caught a bumblebee and the day after that a solitary bee. Today I saw Sussi with another fly again. We're going to be out of flying bugs soon if she keeps this up!
Meet Sussi - _TNY_7985
This extremely hungry spider is a female goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) eating this male Tachinid fly called Gymnosoma nudifrons on a cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).
I had some special plans for her though so I managed to put her in a small plastic container before going home and when we got there, I put her on a ox-eye daisy in front of my neighbour's house.
I've named her Sussi and apparently she was very hungry as not fifteen minutes later, I found her having caught and was eating another fly. Next day she had caught a bumblebee and the day after that a solitary bee. Today I saw Sussi with another fly again. We're going to be out of flying bugs soon if she keeps this up!