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Melanitis leda
The fluttering butterfly caught my attention. It had flown into a web and trying to escape. The Jewelled spider moved in but every time the butterfly struggled, it moved to the other end of the web. When the butterfly stopped struggling the spider came down and started snipping the web above it. I think as the butterfly drops, it swings into more web which would make it easier to wrap up. However this gave the butterfly an opportunity to struggle free. It lived to fly another day.
Grass/herb layer at edge of forest at James Cook University Cairns QLD
Jewelled Spider: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/213...
Thank you very much for assistance with the ID 'S Frazier'. I looked through my Field Guide to Australian Butterflies book so many times, and it is still hard to put an ID on it :-)
Spotted on Apr 13, 2013
Submitted on Apr 14, 2013
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