Spider Web Trap

Behind its beauty, the wild may occasionally be a terrible place for the animals who call it "home". There were two or three animal deaths out of ten every time. It can happen in conflicts or when predators feed on another animal.

I once had the chance to witness the process by which one animal turns into the prey of another predatory animal.

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Oh, the tawny coster (Acraea terpsicore sp.), poor thing! It was flying with some finesse, then slammed into a cobweb abruptly.

It didn't take long before the extremely sticky, glue-like spider silk web paralyzed its ability to move. Despite its best efforts, the butterfly was unable to free itself and even suffered severe harm to its fragile wings and legs.

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The orb-weaver spider (Argiope bruennichi sp.) watched its prey from a few centimeters away. It simply needs to wrap its prey like a mummy with its little silk to utterly kill it. In this manner, the victim will exhaust its energy and breath.

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No other predatory insect dares to risk its life in the cobweb's lethal snare, so the predator doesn't have to worry that the prey will be stolen by rivals. It would then wait until it was time to eat.


All of the images here are my own work, taken with Xiaomi POCO NFC smartphone and an assembled external macro lens.



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We appreciate your work and your post has been manually curated by zoology team (oscurity,nelinoeva) on behalf of Amazing Nature Community. Keep up the good work!

greetings friend! first of all, congratulations for your post, you have great information here, I also loved that you identified the species and attached the site from which you extracted the information, it is what we are looking for in our community!

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Many thanks for curating and for the kind welcome. I'm still learning a lot, and I love it. I can see that there is a lot of knowledge in this community that I can learn from. Best regards. 🙂

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Hello @akukamaruzzaman!

Isn't the spider web the most resistant material in nature? thanks for this post! you meet our requirements to be voted for our BOT DNA
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Obviously, that is right! 🙂

I'm grateful for the support from the @dna team. Best regards.

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A nice spider web is a good fishnets to capture yummy foods ;) ! Do you know something extra about this spider?
thanks for bringing this amazing nature post.
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