Ambush on the Thistle - _TNY_3557 (In Explore 16/10 2022)

Thistles are often excellent places to find bugs. This one at Åva Stensjödal in Tyresta National Park held, among other things, this female goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) which had surprised and killed some sort of male peat hoverfly (Sericomyia sp.).

 

We'll come back to this thistle later - it held more surprises.

Done