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28-03-2011, 07:22 AM
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| | | False widow spider ?
Guessing this might be a false widow spider Steatoda grossa with a bumble bee capture- taken yesterday. Believe it or not the bumble bee had nearly escaped the web when i checked 5 mins later and I plead guilty to then successfully releasing it.
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| | | Re: False widow spider ?
"False widow spider" yes, however not Steatoda grossa but S. nobilis. |
30-03-2011, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Pepsis  "False widow spider" yes, however not Steatoda grossa but S. nobilis. | Thanks Pepsis 
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Stealing a nobilis's dinner - what a brave man.  |
31-03-2011, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Geoff F Stealing a nobilis's dinner - what a brave man. |
The spider had retreated at the time
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04-04-2011, 08:19 PM
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| | | Re: False widow spider ?
Wow, that looks like a Bombus terrestris queen, an enormous dinner for a spider. I have seen spiders falling on Araneus webs and the spiders, after a little check, retreating as if preferring not to tackle it, and the bumblebee finally flying away. So the same might have happened to your bumble, on the other hand, I don't know about Steatoda.
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