File:Voracious green lynx, hanging on by one claw (6518471571).jpg

Original file(1,024 × 1,024 pixels, file size: 980 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description

Hanging by one claw, this green lynx spider (Peucetia viridans) dropped the butterfly she had been feeding upon and caught this colorful wasp. While she fed, the wasp was swarmed by tiny micro-flies called "freeloader flies". These tiny flies feed upon the prey of the spider, sometimes even hanging out with and riding around on the predator. These uninvited dinner guests are called kleptoparasites! I have also seen them on the prey of assassin bugs. (Thanks to Bugguide.net for the identity of the flies.)

  • Alternative unscientific "Bob's world" explanation: the wasp died peacefully in it's sleep and the little grim reaper flies (forager minions of the spider queen) picked it up and flew it to her so it wouldn't go to waste!
(I really need the clouds & wind to go away so I can get back to wildflowers ;-)
Date
Source

Voracious green lynx, hanging on by one claw

Author Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!
Camera location26° 53′ 09.39″ N, 80° 04′ 02.85″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 14 February 2013 by the administrator or reviewer File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

26°53'9.391"N, 80°4'2.849"W

15 December 2011

0.01278772 second

15.1 millimetre

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:39, 14 February 2013Thumbnail for version as of 17:39, 14 February 20131,024 × 1,024 (980 KB)File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske)Transferred from Flickr by User:Jacopo Werther

The following page uses this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata