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Drama in the urban garden!
Just looking in our little pond to see what’s happening when I spot something that looked like a #damselfly dead on the surface.
Touched it and it moved so I lifted it out on my finger.
That’s when I noticed it had a very emaciated abdomen. With a dead spider hanging off it!
Edit (I’m stupid).
Mrs Runt pointed out that the damselfly had probably just emerged from the pond and that the exuvia was still hanging on. Doh!
#damselfly #entomologists #dramainthegarden #nature #wildlife #uk #norfolk #wymondham
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Drama in the urban garden!
Just looking in our little pond to see what’s happening when I spot something that looked like a #damselfly dead on the surface.
Touched it and it moved so I lifted it out on my finger.
That’s when I noticed it had a very emaciated abdomen. With a dead spider hanging off it!
Decided to place the damsel in distress in our young birch tree so I could have a better look.
Yes, definitely had clearly been predated by the spider, but (and I’m surmising here) had flown into the pond maybe to drown its attacker?
Is that a known observed strategy? Any #entomologists or damselfly specialists who can add to this thought? Or am I simply anthropomorphising the situation?
Or had it just flown off in panic and crashed into the pond?
It’s a jungle out there!
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Drama in the urban garden!
Just looking in our little pond to see what’s happening when I spot something that looked like a #damselfly dead on the surface.
Touched it and it moved so I lifted it out on my finger.
That’s when I noticed it had a very emaciated abdomen. With a dead spider hanging off it!
Edit (I’m stupid).
Mrs Runt pointed out that the damselfly had probably just emerged from the pond and that the exuvia was still hanging on. Doh!
#damselfly #entomologists #dramainthegarden #nature #wildlife #uk #norfolk #wymondham
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Drama in the urban garden!
Just looking in our little pond to see what’s happening when I spot something that looked like a #damselfly dead on the surface.
Touched it and it moved so I lifted it out on my finger.
That’s when I noticed it had a very emaciated abdomen. With a dead spider hanging off it!
Edit (I’m stupid).
Mrs Runt pointed out that the damselfly had probably just emerged from the pond and that the exuvia was still hanging on. Doh!
#damselfly #entomologists #dramainthegarden #nature #wildlife #uk #norfolk #wymondham
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Drama in the urban garden!
Just looking in our little pond to see what’s happening when I spot something that looked like a #damselfly dead on the surface.
Touched it and it moved so I lifted it out on my finger.
That’s when I noticed it had a very emaciated abdomen. With a dead spider hanging off it!
Edit (I’m stupid).
Mrs Runt pointed out that the damselfly had probably just emerged from the pond and that the exuvia was still hanging on. Doh!
#damselfly #entomologists #dramainthegarden #nature #wildlife #uk #norfolk #wymondham