A Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) in Her Web

There are a great many honey bees at the CB right now. And plenty of predators are out to eat the honey bees. So when Crumby espied this spider web, he was not surprised to espy three mummied up honey bees in the web. Hold it, Crumby thought. This could be another opportunity for me to practice wide angle, close up photography.

Trouble is, Crumby does not have a wide angle lens that focuses especially close. But he does have the Olympus 14-54 version 1. So that’s what Crumby employed. Can everyone find all the wrappings? Actually, they're not bees, they're hobbits.




Here’s a different lady garden spider. This one’s much bigger. She never wraps victims up. No. She eats them or sucks them dry right away. Then she drops them. Crumby reckons she just has the web to rest on. Up above the web are two egg cases. Crumby must photograph those some time.