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Post by wingedwishes on Aug 27, 2011 16:43:14 GMT -8
I did not take a photo and should have. I want to relate something I experienced not very long ago. I don't know if I related it here before or not. Some one at a market in Florida asked me to kill a black widow spider under her table. Being a helpful person, I did. I noticed an almond sized silk bound blob that was wiggling. I had to know what was inside so I cut it open. Inside was a fiddler crab! I had never known a spider to eat a crab. Attachments:
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Post by anthony on Sept 3, 2011 10:17:45 GMT -8
They are opportunistic predators, seems to be a old record of one trapping a small mouse it does surprise me it could pierce the crab shell.
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Post by bichos on Sept 12, 2011 4:03:57 GMT -8
I did not take a photo and should have. I want to relate something I experienced not very long ago. I don't know if I related it here before or not. Some one at a market in Florida asked me to kill a black widow spider under her table. Being a helpful person, I did. I noticed an almond sized silk bound blob that was wiggling. I had to know what was inside so I cut it open. Inside was a fiddler crab! I had never known a spider to eat a crab. It seems you still don't, as you killed it before it got the chance to actually eat it!  well she probablly would have. Whilst on the subject I saw a picture on a local newspaper of a small bird on a Nephila sp. web  this might be the same one, looks like a finch conservationreport.com/2008/10/22/nature-giant-spider-caught-eating-bird/ and a small snake trapped by a red back which is a close relative to the black widow yep! this is the one, looks pretty real: www.hoax-slayer.com/spider-catches-snake.shtml |
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well she probablly would have.