Wow, Crazy Bee-Eating Spider!

Spider and hapless bee, enmeshed alive in spider silk, all in a blink of an eye, as she spun the bee round and round, coating it in the toughest netting to return tonight for a living feast.  She set a huge, strong web right next to a patch of blooming ice plant and was reeling in bee after bee in a steady wagon train of future meals.  You would think she'd get tired of wrapping bees after a while but she never tired and never wavered.  As for those mounds on her back?  I'm not sure but perhaps they're eggs for future generation of spiders?  Yikes.

Spider in the Garden, Vernegues, France

A spider in the garden in Vernegues, France. It's a tiny spider, about the size of your finger nail on your pinkie finger. The challenge is getting both the sunlight on the web and the detail on the spider at the same time. Tough shot; however, the model wasn't moving so there was time to experiment. How would you snap that shot?

Mrs. Spider Weaving Her Web

Spider patching her web. If you click on it, you can actually see the new strand she's laying down for the night. I caught her in the last few rays of the setting sun.

Creepy Crawly Wolfy Spider...

Spider cruising along an Agave attenuata leaf in my back yard. I'm tempted to say it's some sort of wolf spider but after peaking at a few pages of spider pictures on Google, I'm punting and going to bed. This one's pretty tiny, maybe half an inch in length.