July 18, 2004
The Spider and the Bee
Ann (across the street) noticed that a spider had built a web near some of her front yard patio furniture.
She pointed it out to Owen and me. I showed Owen how the spider jumped as I touched the web briefly with a stick. There weren't too many bugs around, except for the occasional bee visiting nearby agapanthus flowers.
A few hours later, the spider had captured a bee in its web. Owen told me about it and I took a camera along. By the time I got there, the spider had already killed the bee and surrounded it with silk.
Then the whole web came down and the spider and sarcophagized bee fell to the ground. The spider set out trying to drag the bee carcass away. In the first photo, the bee is attaching some kind of thick silk cord to the bee for leverage.
A few minutes later, the spider had lifted the bee to a perpendicular position.
I revisited a few hours later and found no bee and no spider.
From the archives: The Cat Spider
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