Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: A predator! Eeeeek!, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Found this big ugly bugger on a fence post at the ranch. It was about halfway up the post and appeared to be stalking a female pipevine that was flitting around the fence. As I got closer a grasshopper jumped up and landed right next to it...in a flash that grasshopper was dinner!!! The spider quickly scurried around to the back side of the post. I had to stick my hand through the fence panels to try to shoo it back around so I could get some photos. Must have played cat and mouse with that dratted spider for ten minutes! It wouldn't let go of the grasshopper either :o)

Have no idea what kind of spider it is...will have to research the net to ID it.

Oh well, I'm not sad to see a grasshopper get caught...there are thousands of grasshoppers out there anyway. Glad the butterfly didn't land!

~ Cat