aka The Bee and the Spider

Author Marc Newman

The drama took place on a Yellow Button (Chrysocephalum apiculatum)…

It wasn’t obvious to me, until I looked back at the photos on the monitor (the photos are in time sequence)…

She looked home free for a while but then she decided to continue into danger…

Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman

I think I saw her fly off at the end, thus ending the lesson…


Footnote & References

  1. Photographs © Marc Newman, Flickr, https://flickr.com/photos/koolbee/albums
  2. Bee (Lasioglossum Parasphecodes sp.) and spider (Crab Spider Runcinia acuminata), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
  3. Thanks to Ken Walker (Bowerbird) for bee ID and spider ID by Laurence Sanders.