Photos of a spider attacking a hurt bee

[fluidistic]

This is the story of 2 bees entering my appartment today. One flew away while the other had to fight against my girlfriend who eventually hurted it. It felt down at the bottom of our window, not the best spot. Right over a spider net. After a few seconds a spider poped up, wrapped its prey with its silk rope. The spider then took the prey inside its nest to devore it, outside my viewfield.
The spectacle was somehow horrible for me (I really, really hate spiders) although I managed to take some blurry photos.

The photos were taken today in Córdoba city in Argentina using a panasonic DMC TZ25/ZS15. I had the mode macro enabled and the lense was at not further than 5 cm away from the scene.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

You need to clean your windows :D

I witnessed a wasp kill a fairly large spider while working in my yard last year. Thrilling!

 

[strangerep]

I witnessed a wasp kill a fairly large spider while working in my yard last year. Thrilling!

Thrilling?? I saw a similar thing a few years ago, but the spider was a huntsman (essentially harmless to humans). I was sad for the spider and wished I could have killed the wasp.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Thrilling?? I saw a similar thing a few years ago, but the spider was a huntsman (essentially harmless to humans). I was sad for the spider and wished I could have killed the wasp.

Not as big as the huntsman and I live in a city, so I don't get that much nature

 

[Wrichik Basu]

I really, really hate spiders

And you still let that spider stay with you in your apartment? My principle is simple: either insects, or me. That includes reptiles, by the way. The one we cannot deal with is the lizard. The more you try to throw it away, the more it comes back. Anyone interested in freeing my apartment from lizards?

 

[Vanadium 50]

And you still let that spider stay with you in your apartment? My principle is simple: either insects, or me.

Spiders are not insects. In fact, they eat insects.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Spiders are not insects. In fact, they eat insects.

Umm, I know that. Yeah, the phrasing indicated something like what you understood. Pardon my English..

 

[pinball1970]

This is the story of 2 bees entering my appartment today. One flew away while the other had to fight against my girlfriend who eventually hurted it. It felt down at the bottom of our window, not the best spot. Right over a spider net. After a few seconds a spider poped up, wrapped its prey with its silk rope. The spider then took the prey inside its nest to devore it, outside my viewfield.
The spectacle was somehow horrible for me (I really, really hate spiders) although I managed to take some blurry photos.
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The photos were taken today in Córdoba city in Argentina using a panasonic DMC TZ25/ZS15. I had the mode macro enabled and the lense was at not further than 5 cm away from the scene.

Your windowsill looks like some sort of Arthropod grave yard. I recommend using the narrow nozzle on a decent vacuum cleaner, suck the whole lot into oblivion

 

[fluidistic]

Note that I posted this picture over 6 years ago. I didn't have a vacuum cleaner at that time.

As a sidenote, I killed a bigger spider in my appartment 2 nights ago, with a shoe in my hand. I wish this stuff did not exist.

 

[pinball1970]

Note that I posted this picture over 6 years ago. I didn't have a vacuum cleaner at that time.

As a sidenote, I killed a bigger spider in my appartment 2 nights ago, with a shoe in my hand. I wish this stuff did not exist.

Essential to birds bats other mammals and fish as part of the food chain. I don't like killing spiders. I am just not keen on anything with more than 4 legs.

 

[phinds]

Spiders are not insects. In fact, they eat insects.

Well, I think they are and here's my reasoning.

"Insect" derives from "in" meaning little and "sect" meaning nasty creature, so insects include nasty little creatures such as

spiders
little yippy dogs
politicians
Truman Capote

 

[pinball1970]

Well, I think they are and here's my reasoning.

"Insect" derives from "in" meaning little and "sect" meaning nasty creature, so insects include nasty little creatures such as

spiders
little yippy dogs
politicians
Truman Capote

What’s wrong with Capote?Thought he was revered in literary circles?
I would add children to that list, the ones that save up days of screeching for long train/plane rides and restaurants.I would rather sit next to spider on a plane than a 3 year old

 

[phinds]

What’s wrong with Capote?
Thought he was revered in literary circles?

He wrote one great book and several good ones and IS admired in literary circles for that reason, but apparently personally, he was a real <forum rules prohibit the next word>.

 

[pinball1970]

He wrote one great book and several good ones and IS admired in literary circles for that reason, but apparently personally, he was a real <forum rules prohibit the next word>.

Many great artists were self-obsessed, selfish, brats according to their partners children managers other band members.

They say never meet your heroes as you will always be disappointed.

I met Ian Gillan in 1989 after a gig in Manchester and he was a real gent.

Also Richard Dawkins a couple of years ago at a book signing briefly, he seemed pleasant enough, he smiled at me anyway.
Anyway one more word on the spider, it looks big.

Its abdomen is pretty much the same size as the Bee’s which from memory are much fatter than a house spider in the UK

Apis or Bombus are the main ones I think – honey and bumble, I am not googling them to make sure someone else can do that

So either they have smaller bees in Argentina or this is a large spider.

 

[fluidistic]

Spiders exist since less than half a billion years ago. Life was doing fine without them. If we were to extinct them right now, a new "equilibrium" between species would take some time but it wouldn't be the end of all life on Earth.

 

[phinds]

Spiders exist since less than half a billion years ago. Life was doing fine without them. If we were to extinct them right now, a new "equilibrium" between species would take some time but it wouldn't be the end of all life on Earth.

You could say exactly the same thing about people, and the resulting equilibrium would be more healthy for the planet. I'm not in favor, however.

 

[fluidistic]

You could say exactly the same thing about people, and the resulting equilibrium would be more healthy for the planet. I'm not in favor, however.

I agree with you!