Friday, August 15, 2008

Is that bee alive? No, dinner


We were doing our usual walk around the block last night, and looking for bats above, and bees, hanging onto lavendar, below. I stopped to inspect one of the bees, when Jennifer asked "Hey, I think that bee's dead."

No, just sleeping.

No, dead, she responds. That spider (green small one, that lives on butterfly bushes) just crawled away from it.

So I poked it and sure enough. Dead, and dry. I found this blog (which is very cool, all about bugs) and decided it's a green lynx spider (go down to the Sept. 2007 post). Funny,the guy was asking about what the spider was that had just munched down a bee in front of him. Apparently the spider gets its name from pouncing on its prey like a cat.


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