Gotcha
by David Davies
Title
Gotcha
Artist
David Davies
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Photograph - Print
Description
Whilst just studying a bee feeding on a wild flower by looking through my camera's lens; suddenly this happened. It made me jump! Having been hiding the other side of the flowerhead, the crab spider leaped out to catch the poor bee. The first few photos I took of the scene were blurred until I managed to regain my composure.
Top finisher in the 'Insects on Flowers' contest.
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July 31st, 2014
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Comments (4)
Elizabeth Criss
Amazing image! What an incredible little spider! It is so hard being a bee. Sympathies and regards! L/F
Nikolyn McDonald
Very unusual - that white against the darker tones of the flower and bee. And a great story - both in your narrative and in the image itself. Congratulations on the tie for 3rd place in the Flowers with Insects contest.
Mary Myers
It's life--eat or be eaten. I think it's a great catch--not very many people see an incident such as this and you were blessed to have a camera to capture the whole thing. Interesting spider--interesting color. Thanks for sharing.
David Davies replied:
Thank you Mary for your kind and thoughtful comments -- I was blessed as well as shocked, and not a little lucky to have been able to get some images in focus!
Christy Cox
Great image and WoW on the surprise nature delivered that day! Beautiful capture! (well of the spider, sad circle of life for the bee;)
David Davies replied:
Thank you for your kind comments. I entered this in a competition (probably where you came upon it) but the administrator removed it. Possibly too real for some tastes! Hey Ho!
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