Fifth Meal for Sussi - _TNY_8105

This extremely hungry spider is a female goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) in the process of eating a plasterer bee known as the Davies' colletes (Colletes daviesanus) on an ox-eye daisy (Lecanthemum vulgare).

 

I originally found her on some cow parsley where she was eating a tachinid fly and put her in a small plastic container until I got home where I let her out on one of the ox-eye daisies in front of my neighbour's house.

 

Not fifteen minutes later when I checked in on her, she had already caught and was eating another fly!

 

The next day when I came out again, she had caught a bumblebee and the day after that this solitary bee.

 

Apparently not full yet, the day after that I saw her with yet another fly - we're going to be out of flying bugs soon if she keeps this up!

 

I named her Sussi and was looking forward to seeing her grow, but the day after that, she was gone.

 

For a shot of Sussi early in her bumblebee meal, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52163448364/

 

and here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52346576237/ for an hour into the meal.

 

For a shot of her eating the fly she caught when put on the daisy, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52308568738/

 

For a shot of her on the cow parsley, please have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52134439834/

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