獲物


裏庭の奥の方、滅多に行くことのない場所に、ローズマリーの低木が生えています。その枝の中に大きくて綺麗なクモの巣ができていました。 A very large rosemary bush grows at the very back corner of our backyard. I rarely go there. A large spider web was shining beautifully in between rosemary branches.

コガネグモの親戚グモがその中央に住んでいます。どうやら、せっせと何かしているようです。あら、口のあたりから何かが出ている。 A Banded Garden Spider is the owner of the web. When I saw her, she was busy at work doing something. Something was sticking out from around her mouth.

もっと近寄ってみると、どうやクモの糸を獲物に絡ませているようです。 I tried going closer to her, and found that she was wrapping her thread around her prey.

お腹側。いや、もしかして、獲物を食べてるのかな? This is a ventral view. It’s also possible that she was eating it.

翌日もう一度見てみると、もう獲物は無くなっていました。 I went there again the next day, but the thing around her mouth was gone then.

巣の近辺を観察してみると、巣の下の方に糸に絡められた何かを発見しました。 I searched for the thing she was working on the day before, and found a thing wrapped by spider web at the bottom of the web.

これから食べられる獲物が入っているのか、すでに食べられてしまった残骸なのか不明です。たった一本の細い糸で巣と結ばれていました。 I have no idea what’s in it. Either her prey is still in it or it’s simply a leftover. It was connected by a thin thread to the web.

自然界は本当に面白い。不思議な事、面白いことが満載です。 Nature is full of mysterious and interesting things that I never get tired of it.

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