A Simply Extra
In a battle between butterfly and spider, spider usually wins. This luckless cloudless sulphur had the misfortune of becoming entangled in a writing spider's web.
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This black and yellow argiope (writing spider) scored a big meal when a cloudless sulphur butterfly flew into its web |
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The spider is busy wrapping up its catch |
Several black and yellow argiopes (Argiope aurantia) have built their distinctive webs on the firespike bush, which attracts many butterflies as well as hummingbirds, bees and other insects.
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In another firespike bush, a writing spider's web captured a moth |
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This cloudless sulphur managed to avoid any sticky entanglements, at least so far... |
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