Part of me hates to see this. Part of me doesn’t. Guess that’s emotion and reason coexisting. Maybe we, collectively, could use a little more balance.
Tag: Jumping Spider
Bonus: Jumping on a ‘mum
Cute little jumping spider on a chrysanthemum. If you look close, you can see some ‘mum pollen on a strand of spider web – there just to the left of the spider. These critters fascinate me. As I was shooting (and I only had a few seconds before the spider got nervous), three bees landed on the flower, must have noticed the spider, and skedaddled. (Never knew how that word was spelled, but spell check did.)
Bonus – Spiders Do What Spiders Do
Looks like this jumping spider made a successful jump. She had a really hard time getting the bee out of the tulip. Wrestled and wrestled with it. Tried a lot of paths out. I watched for maybe five minutes and got distracted. Checked an hour or so later and she’d finally pulled the bee away to somewhere. She sure had a hard time exiting the tulip, though. I know photos like this disturb some folks, but it’s all part of the dynamic of the garden – the dynamic of this world. And it deserves to be noticed.
Bonus – More Circle of Life Stuff
I decided this morning that phrase is a euphemism. If you disagree with this assertion, ask that bee. Not that I have any problem with the concept, understand… Only with the phrase. Cool jumping spider – having jumped successfully.
Bonus – The Spider Jumped…
…and missed. And the fly survived this time…
Bonus – Very Cute Spider
Are spiders cute? Can they be? I think this one is. Pretty sure it’s a jumping spider. Whatever the case, let’s call it an “inadvertent pollinator” and give it entry to the site as a bonus. Neat shot.
Bonus! – Jumping Spider in the Russian Sage
I’ve sure been delinquent in posting these “bonus” shots of other pollinators (or inadvertent pollinators – in this case). Oh, well. Maybe I’ll be less harried in the colder months. Or not…
Enjoy this one. It’s fun to watch them hunt…and jump at other critters.
Bonus – I Think the Kids Say: REKT!!
Two things here: first it’s just danged interesting to see. Got one on a wall the other day of a jumping spider with a honeybee in its clutches, but wasn’t quite clear enough to post. This time, it was a bulb fly- one of those nasty ones flies that wrecks the daffodils.
The other is the mimicry evident in the fly. Looks lots like a small bumble. Great adaptive move.
Bonus 004 – Jumping Spider on a Geranium
If this site is about bees and the occasional bonus pollinator, I’m not sure that this shot belongs. But it’s such a neat shot of a tiny, tiny spider that I thought that I’d use poetic license (it’s my site, my rules, right?) and name it an “honorary inadvertent pollinator” for today. All that hair, too…have to think that there’s some transfer here and there now and then?