Snatch & Crab
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I was photographing small insects on a white umbellifer when a medium-sized fly alighted. Before my eyes could focus, it disappeared. It did no take of, it just vanished.
Looking under the inflorescence, on the far side from my position, I saw the culprit. A crab spider Misumena vatia, about one third grown, had seized the fly. It was only on examining these images that the characteristic eyes, antennae and elongated mouthparts (fourth image) showed me it was a Dancefly Empis tessellata, which is common in the garden..
EM-1, Kiron 105, f16, twin flash, hand-held.
Harold
Looking under the inflorescence, on the far side from my position, I saw the culprit. A crab spider Misumena vatia, about one third grown, had seized the fly. It was only on examining these images that the characteristic eyes, antennae and elongated mouthparts (fourth image) showed me it was a Dancefly Empis tessellata, which is common in the garden..
EM-1, Kiron 105, f16, twin flash, hand-held.
Harold
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Thanks, Brian.
Harold