Garden inhabitants 2 , a small spider in its web caught a small insect, 281124.

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This small spider had caught and wrapped up its prey.

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[Andrew Lamberson]

Super shots with exceptionally sharp eyes!!!

 

[Larry S.]

Nice work! Not easy to get the correct angle to get the shot. Image# 3 looks to have a milkweed seed floater caught. Milkweed (if you have it) is the preferred food of monarch butterflies…. Maybe you have those also…

 

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Super shots with exceptionally sharp eyes!!!

Thanks. Getting the eyes sharp was fiddly, with many attempts to get them in focus.

Nice work! Not easy to get the correct angle to get the shot. Image# 3 looks to have a milkweed seed floater caught. Milkweed (if you have it) is the preferred food of monarch butterflies…. Maybe you have those also…

Thanks. The angle was a matter of very carefully stretching/leaning over the garden bed without treading on the flowers.
Image 3 would most likely not be a Milkweed seed floater we most likely do not have them here, maybe a hover fly as many of them have been around the spiders web which is in amongst some Cineraria flowers.
No Monarch butterflies here.

 

[Larry S.]

This is what I saw. It appears to be a milkweed seed floater that drifted into the web, which would be a good thing if you have monarchs. These butterflies are endangered in the U.S. and they migrate thousands of miles to South America. The 2nd image is the real deal milkweed seed that floats on hair like filaments. Whatever, nice images!

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@Larry S. Thanks for the follow up, more information welcome.
After some more investigation in the garden the seed is most probably from a Cineraria flower, the web is as I said is set in amongst them and is the most likely source of the seed.
As I live thousands of kilometres (approx 11,000kms - 6800 miles) from the Americas I doubt the Monarchs you mention live here.
An image of a Cineraria seed and its silky filaments(?), it is in total around 5mm (0.01968498 inch) long.

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[Larry S.]

Wow! Thanks for getting back to me… It’s interesting that the seed ‘things’ look so similar half way around the world.

 

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@Larry S. No problem. Similar looking indeed, looks like milkweed seeds are quite different in size though, hard to know from images on line.