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I suggest you plant lavender for action in the back yard! I have no idea why the cotton stainers mating pair are trying to get this crab spiders meal (bee), not to mention the cluster of tiny flies that want part of the action! Storm in a tea cup!
Spotted on Sep 25, 2012
Submitted on Sep 27, 2012
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Sure, free food is not to be passed by! In the animal kingdom there is such a thing as a free lunch.
they are so so tiny, but i will crop a few and add them. I was wondering what they were doing there!! I will add all this information to the spot! Found another one today with flies but this time it was the Flower Crab Spider. Do you perhaps know the reason for the cotton stainers joining the festivities?
that field guide! need to get mine soon!
The flies are "Jackal flies" (Family Milichiidae) Scavengers that hang around crab spiders, wasps, robber flies etc as per the Field Guide.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkeats/5047...
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