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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8962
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 18 9:07 pm Post subject:
Is it native to uk?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 18 9:10 pm Post subject:
Yup.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 18 9:55 pm Post subject:
ace photos cute critter, unless one is a bee? did that go badly for ms buzz?

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 18 10:00 pm Post subject:
The victim's a hoverfly. Didn't end well for him/her.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 18 10:06 am Post subject:
oooh so it is (was), some have quite a set of jaws but not as difficult a meal as a bee in extremis.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 18 12:02 pm Post subject:
As I recall, Gerald Durrell's white crab spiders changed colour (slowly) if moved to a red flower. The hoverfly is probably a species of Eristalis, but they need looking at carefully through a lens to be sure of which one. The spider is probably Misumena vatia, which does indeed change colour depending on which colour flower it is sitting in. This one is a female. Henry

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 18 12:36 pm Post subject:
Great shots! It blends in amazingly well. Did it move after it had eaten?

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 18 4:22 pm Post subject:
Nope, still sitting there.

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 18 8:49 pm Post subject:
They are incredible things aren't they! Great photography too

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 18 9:32 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Nope, still sitting there.

Well, why move house when the food is delivered to your door?

Henry

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 18 11:17 am Post subject:
I think you should move it. I want to see it go pink! (Is that mean? It’s hardly a matter of life and death for me, and will mean a big upheaval for the spider, but I’d love to see it)

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 18 3:15 pm Post subject:
She's gorn.

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 18 4:49 pm Post subject:
Didn't want a make over! Henry

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 18 7:19 pm Post subject:
Or a bigger predator turned up.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8962
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Jun 16, 18 8:23 am Post subject:
We saw one on the last part of Springwatch on BBC2...fascinating

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