Spider vs Wasp Queen

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

March 3, 2012 edited March 10, 2012 in Holy Macro

Spotted a queen wasp flying around a variagated holly bush and went round to see if I could find it. It had landed on some ivy on the fence but had got tangled in some spider's web. The owner immediately appeared and much to my suprise went to attack the wasp. The spider grabbed the wasp's wing and had a tug of war for about 50 seconds. The queen then turned round and bit the spider on a leg whereupon the spider decided enough was enough and let the wasp go. The wasp did eventually free itself and flew off apparently unharmed.

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Gatto Registered Users Posts: 413 Major grins

March 3, 2012 edited March 3, 2012

Beautiful action sequence. I like the timeline with the attack and than retreat of the spider. how many shots did you take ?

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PedalGirl Registered Users Posts: 794 Major grins

March 3, 2012 edited March 3, 2012

Wow! That's something you don't see every day!

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Moving Pictures Registered Users Posts: 384 Major grins

March 3, 2012 edited March 3, 2012

Wow ... that's a bit of luck, bit of observation, bit of sleuthing and a whole lotta having the right gear and skill to use it.

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

March 4, 2012 edited March 4, 2012

Thanks for the comments - appreciated

Gatto - took 9 shots altogether but the last 3 were a focus stack attempt for the retreating spider (only used 2 of them)

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Snowgirl Registered Users Posts: 2,155 Major grins

March 4, 2012 edited March 4, 2012

That was amazing!

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DeVerm Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins

March 4, 2012 edited March 4, 2012

ciao!
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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

March 5, 2012 edited March 5, 2012

Thanks SG and Nick
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KingdomSeeker Registered Users Posts: 48 Big grins

March 8, 2012 edited March 8, 2012

I'd have loved to have been there to see it. Amazing captures.

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

March 9, 2012 edited March 9, 2012

KingdomSeeker wrote: »

I'd have loved to have been there to see it. Amazing captures.

Thanks - it was interesting to watch - I assumed the spider was winning
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DeVil Registered Users Posts: 1,037 Major grins

March 9, 2012 edited March 9, 2012

Great set Brian, nicely taken

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

March 10, 2012 edited March 10, 2012

DeVil wrote: »

Great set Brian, nicely taken

Thanks
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