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Bald Faced Hornet decapitates Golden Legged Mydas Fly

On August 26, 2011 · Category: Hornets and Yellow Jackets, Mydas Flies Tagged With: food chain · Add Comment

mydas vs. hornet
Location: Northern Indiana
August 25, 2011 10:21 am
This is not an ID request, but thought that other WTB addicts might appreciate it. This picture is not great quality, but here’s a link to the full video of a hornet attacking and decapitating a golden-legged mydas fly:
http://www.facebook.com/rumvillage#!/video/video.php?v=207796845940579&oid=116718851680137&comments
Signature: Vince

Bald Faced Hornet decapitates Gold Legged Mydas Fly

Hi Vince,
We were unsuccessful in locating a Golden Legged Mydas Fly online, but we did find Mydas tibialis on BugGuide. It is a species with no common name listed and it has been reported from Indiana. Your Food Chain image is wonderful. We wonder if the best Hornet hunters decapitate large and dangerous prey like Dragonflies, and then they communicate to the hive where to find the kill.

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Bee Assassin eats Hornworm

On August 25, 2011 · Category: Assassin Bugs, Hornworms Tagged With: food chain · 1 Comment

Good bug / Bad bug?
Location: West Tennessee
August 24, 2011 8:16 pm
Wondering what bug this is that is sucking the life out of this tomato horn worm?
Signature: tn_wildflower

Bee Assassin eats Hornworm

Dear tn_wildflower,
It is nice to see that though it is called a Bee Assassin, Apiomerus crassipes, one of the Assassin Bugs, does not subsist solely on bees. This is a very nice food chain image. See BugGuide for some comparison photos.

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Six Spotted Fishing Spider eats Tadpole

On August 22, 2011 · Category: Amphibians, Nursery Web Spiders Tagged With: food chain · 2 Comments

fishing spider??
August 22, 2011 10:17 am
i posted pics to your facebbok page and have tried 3 time s unsuccessfully ot send them to you on here, it wont upload them. its a green spider, in the water and it had grabbed a tiny tadpole out of the water. its beena couple of months since i posted them! wondering if you can help!
Signature: BIBEF

we do not check the facebook pages. We reserve that as an open forum. We only post letters that come to our website directly. We are very curious about the photos of the spider you describe and we would love to see the photos. Your aphid photos did arrive correctly. Try attaching the spider photos to this response and please add all the information on the sighting, like location and date.
Thanks

hope it works this way, i have seen spiders near water, but never IN the water. the one pic is a good one of the spider, you can see its feet pressing on the surface of the water, and the second which sadly came out blurry, you can see the tadpole it grabbed out of the water in its mouth. i was only able to get the one with te tadpole and almost fell in the pond trying to get that one, so thats why only the blurry one! ive look ed at fishing spiders on your site and they dont really look like this one, but that could just be me!!

Six Spotted Fishing Spider

Dear Bibef,
We are very happy we requested you to resend these photos. Other letters from you have come from Ohio. Is this also Ohio? This is definitely a Fishing Spider in the genus Dolomedes, and we have identified it as a Six Spotted Fishing Spider, Dolomedes triton. We have some old images in our archives, including these images from Louisiana, and this image from Florida, but your image is the only we have received depicting a food chain image with aquatic prey.

Six Spotted Fishing Spider eats Tadpole

yes ohio, caesars creek state park to be exact, and thank you, fun finding out they come in a variety of colors!!

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Spider Wasp attacks Wolf Spider

On August 22, 2011 · Category: spider wasps, Wolf Spiders Tagged With: food chain · Add Comment

Some sort of spider wasp
Location: Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.A.
August 20, 2011 6:14 pm
I was coming back to the house from the garden. I walked around the corner and noticed a wasp fly up and away from a spider. I got to the door and it returned to the spider. I grabbed the camera and tried to get a couple shots. I couldn’t get very close without it flying off. So I snapped a picture from as close as I could get. The spider is pretty large, just slightly smaller than a quarter.
It was about 4 p.m. on August 20 near Bel Air, Maryland. Temperature was about 88F and it was rather humid since we’ve been having thunder storms pretty much ever evening.
I have a larger photo if it will help.
Signature: Greg in Maryland

Spider Wasp attacks Wolf Spider

Dear Greg,
We are very happy to be posting your thrilling photo to our Food Chain page. You are correct that this is a Spider Wasp. We have identified it as Tachypompilus ferrugineus based on photos posted to BugGuide. Though the curled position of the spider does not permit us to be certain of its identity, we thought it must be either a Wolf Spider or a Funnel Web Spider, but the genus page for Tachypompilus on BugGuide indicates: “Females provision nests mainly with Lycosids.” That would indicate that the spider in your photo is a Wolf Spider.

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Red Footed Cannibalfly eats House Fly

On August 19, 2011 · Category: House Flies, Robber Flies Tagged With: food chain · Add Comment

please identify this carnivorous? bug
Location: 01867
August 19, 2011 8:06 am
seen outside yesterday north of boston
Signature: -bugged out

Red Footed Cannibalfly eats House Fly

Dear bugged out,
The predator is a Robber Fly known as a Red Footed Cannibalfly and it is eating a House Fly.

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Mating Red Footed Cannibalflies

On August 18, 2011 · Category: Robber Flies Tagged With: bug love, food chain · Add Comment

Red-footed canibalfly(?) and bug love
Location: Kirksville, MOAugust 18, 2011 6:50 pmI’ve been seeing a large number of these robber flies around the area for the past month or so, now. Their size is very impressive. I had been wondering what kind they were, exactly, so I was very happy to see so many photos of the red-footed cannibalfly on your site. That’s what it appears to be, at least! Some of them buzzed so close that I feared they were horse flies (which have also been very thick, lately). I felt a little silly (and relieved!)when I realized that the giant insect that had landed on my shirt while I was hiking was just a robber fly. I spotted a number of them along the trail that were mating, as well and I had to snap a few photos because robber flies are some of my favorites – their little muttonchops are just so charming!
Signature: EB

Red Footed Cannibalfly eating small insect

Dear EB,
We love your stunning photographs of Red Footed Cannibalflies eating and mating. We hope you don’t mind that we cropped and rotated them to fit our format.

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Cicada Killer preys upon Dogday Harvestfly in MANHATTAN!!!

On August 14, 2011 · Category: Cicada Killer Wasps, Cicadas Tagged With: food chain, Top 10 · Add Comment

Cicada Killer…Killing a cicada!
Location: Morningside Park, Manhattan, New York
August 14, 2011 4:56 pm
I guess this wasp must be one of those Cicada Killers, judging by the fact that it is clearly killing this cicada! I saw this thing flying at me across a busy intersection near Morningside Park. The two bugs together made quite a large mass of buzzing insect, and at first I couldn’t figure out what it was, and just stepped back in fear of getting stung. Then I realized it was this wasp carrying its prey through the air. It landed on a nearby lamppost and I was able to snap a few shots, of which one came out decently. I hope you like it!
Signature: Jenny Jo

Cicada Killer preys upon Cicada

Hi Jenny Jo,
Though we have no shortage of Cicada Killers preying upon Cicadas on our site, what makes your letter so intriguing to us is your concise eye witness account as well as your location. It is wonderful to know that both Cicada Killers and Cicadas can be found in Manhattan. Your description of the Cicada Killer and its freight flying through the air and landing on a lamp post is critical to understanding the Cicada Killers instincts. It is highly likely that the load weighs more than the carrier, and getting airborne from the ground is probably very difficult if not highly unlikely. We have read that Cicada Killers climb up a tree or pole so that they do not have to take off from the ground, adding needed altitude to the flight. It expends considerably less energy that way. The fact that the Cicada Killer that you witnessed chose a lamp post as a landing field ensured that it would not have to search for a structure to climb while on the ground on a busy street in Manhattan, ensuring its survival until it reaches the site of its underground nest. Thanks so much for submitting a photo to our site that did not require an identification. As an aside, Annual Cicadas in the genus Tibicen, especially the northern species Tibicen canicularis, is frequently called the Dogday Harvestfly. See BugGuide for verification.

Thanks for the note! The wasp landed near the base of the lamp post
an did, indeed, climb upward after landing. I didn’t have time to
stick around until she took off, though. I love how she is able to
hang onto the texture of the paint with only one foot.

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Spider Wasp attacks Spider in France

On August 14, 2011 · Category: spider wasps, Wolf Spiders Tagged With: food chain · Add Comment

Ant-Wasp-Fly attacking and Killing spider!
Location: Pierrefeu, Alpes-Maritimes, France
August 14, 2011 9:25 am
Hello Bugman/woman,
I witnessed this brutal attack and wondered if you could identify both creatures.
The ”Ant-Wasp-Fly” insisted 3 times to chase the spider up a tree and knock it off and eventually managed to put the spider on its back and killed it.
Signature: brutal attack

do you have a higher resolution image?

Spider Wasp Paralyzes Spider

This was a screen shot of a 720p video (iPhone 4) of the attack. Is there any way I could ‘upload’ that to you?
Thanks!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riwHj4EPq-0

Though we are hoping for a higher resolution image, we are nonetheless posting this great documentation of a Spider Wasp in the family Pompilidae stinging and paralyzing what appears to be a Wolf Spider. The Spider Wasp does not eat the Spider it has preyed upon. The Spider will provide food for a larval wasp and the female Spider Wasp will provision her nest with paralyzed Spiders so that her brood will have a supply of fresh meat. Dead spiders would dry out, but the paralyzed spider is eaten alive, with the vital organs being eaten last. Though the quality of this image is poor, we believe we have identified the wasp Arachnospila anceps based on a photo on the Commanster Pompilidae page. That identification is further supported by the images posted on the Nature Conservation Imaging web page, but it should be noted that this black and red coloration pattern is not rare in Spider Wasps, and the individual in your photo may be another species. We would still love a higher resolution image if one is available.

PS: I also saw this very similar insect a day later in the same area (see attachment). Maybe it is the same one as in the video link I sent..?

Spider Wasp

Hi again Raphael,
Spider Wasps in the family Pompilidae take nectar as adults as opposed to feeding as predators. This individual does look very much like the same species in the previously published image.

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Bald Faced Hornet decapitates Golden Legged Mydas Fly

Bee Assassin eats Hornworm

Six Spotted Fishing Spider eats Tadpole

Spider Wasp attacks Wolf Spider

Red Footed Cannibalfly eats House Fly

Mating Red Footed Cannibalflies

Cicada Killer preys upon Dogday Harvestfly in MANHATTAN!!!

Spider Wasp attacks Spider in France

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