I was walking through knee-high grass when a sudden movement caught my eye and I saw the web with a leftover grasshopper exoskeleton inside. The movement was the spider running to hide. I never saw the spider but looking the size of the web and the size of the grasshopper, I strongly suspect that it was an Orb Web Weaver spider such as this one that I photographed in my garden about a year ago.
As you can see, they happily eat large insects. Don't think that they have it all own way though: a few days after I took the second picture, the web was smashed and the spider disappeared, probably taken by a bird. It's always a case of eat and be eaten in this world
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Cool body shape, i found an all yellow one with a similar body shape a while back, does this one make a zig zag in the middle of the web?
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Yes, the stabilimentum. I read something interesting about how it's also used to fool birds
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Yes, poor grasshopper out of luck. Probably not there jumped.
The spider looks so angry. But the birds were very hungry, so they had lunch with a spide
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It's a fend for yourself world, unless your a democrat... :_)
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You are lucky to see it!
What a strange spider!
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Definitely different. I find spiders fascinating At one time I had a dozen black tarantulas on me at once. Took a pic but can't find it now.
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