Langstone, Hampshire: Crab spiders are ambush predators rather than web-spinners, and bees can often be their unsuspecting victimsI was cutting a bunch of antirrhinums when I noticed a dark shadow inside one of the nose-like flower capsules. When I pinched open the lobed petals, I was surprised to discover an entombed common carder bee. Honeybees often struggle to enter and exit these snap-jawed blooms, as they don't have enough heft to cause the flower lip to open, but portly bumblebees have no trouble thrusting their bodies into the gullet of the flower and wriggling out backwards, so this pollinator's demise was something of a mystery. Continue reading...
Country diary: when a crab spider executes plan bee
20. červenece 2018 7:01
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/20/country-diary-when-a-crab-spider-executes-plan-bee
Zdroj: The Guardian