Post di Mark McCaughrean

Mark McCaughrean

@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social

1 giorno fa

As a bonus, a brief encounter between a juvenile goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia) & a fig-tree skeletonizer moth (Choreutis nemorana), on opposite sides of a flower arena.

I bet the spider was thinking "yeah, easy", but the moth jumped up on the pistils, drank a bit, then flew off.

Tschja, close ... 🤷‍♂️🙂

#Heidelberg 🏰
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A white flower (possibly a snowdrop anemone) with pink edges to its petals, a round ball of pistils in the centre, with a few yellow stamens. On one side of the flower is a small crab spider, with a green-yellow body, green stripes on its cephalothorax and brown patches on its opisothoma. The front two pairs of legs are large and are banded yellow and brown, while the other two pairs are smaller and green-yellow. It is looking across the flower at a larger moth on the other side. The moth has orange-brown wings with some crooked white stripes across them, while the head and legs are white with some black flecks.

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