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Jul 15, 2007 14:41 | #1

Sequence of shots of a bee captured by an orb web spider- Araneus diadematus.

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Spider starts wrapping up bee

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Bee bites spider on the foot

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Spider falls out of the web in suprise

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Bee frees itself and flies off , spider arrives back wondering what happened and looking a bit annoyed

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Jul 15, 2007 14:44 | #2

nice set Brian ,looks like my wasp is telling all his m8s about that trick :lol: from this set wasp and spider punch up

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Jul 15, 2007 14:47 | #3

Oh, super set Brian. Looks like the spider got back and said where is my dinner gone.

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Jul 15, 2007 15:57 | #4

LordV, great stuff as usual. Courierman, great shots too!

I really need to practice with my 100 more. From Tuesday, I'm off for 8 days so I plan to get some shooting in.

Thanks for sharing guys.

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Jul 15, 2007 16:00 as a reply to @ adam LC's post | #5

Great series Brian. I wonder if the spiders venom didnt work or miss fired. Lucky bee

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Jul 15, 2007 16:11 | #6

Thanks for the comments - it was interesting to watch.
Trevor- it looked to me as if the spider decided to try and wrap it up before injecting any venom.
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Jul 15, 2007 16:22 | #7

glad my dinner cant run away!

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Jul 15, 2007 16:26 | #8

Amazing series of shots Brian, I guess it couldn't have injected venom and given the strength of the silk it's pretty amazing the bee got out with or without venom.

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Jul 16, 2007 00:34 | #9

Thanks for the comments RM abd Alby
Alby I think the pollen helped by gumming up the sticky bits of the web- the bee left a lot of it behind.
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