Spiders
Sighting 4460083

Unverified

3 Can you identify this sighting?

Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Unverified at suppressed - suppressed
Request use of media

Identification history

Unverified 21 Dec 2022 LisaH

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

User's notes

Life and death in the bush. I watched this drama from start to (almost) finish. Dragonfly, minding its business. I thought it was just hovering, until this rather large arachnid quickly descended in front of me, straight to the stranded dragonfly, now literally ensnared in the spider's web. A quick struggle, fluttering of wings, then stillness - but not for the spider, who busily circled and wrapped its food, with intermediate climbs up the web, before scuttling down again to continue the storage. Then, to my amazement, the spider pulled its now tightly bound food source up a string of webbing to the tree above - which is where I left the story.

Be the first to comment

Please Login or Register to comment.

Sighting information

Additional information

  • 25mm to 50mm Animal size

Record quality

  • Images or audio
  • More than one media file
  • Verified by an expert moderator
  • Nearby sighting(s) of same species
  • GPS evidence of location
  • Description
  • Additional attributes
833,210 sightings of 22,972 species from 14,456 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made