The Predator Becomes the Prey (Graphic!)

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I watched as a yellow jacket flew into a spiders web.

The more it struggled, the more it became entangled.

The spider watched from the corner of her web. She waited.

The yellow jacket began to struggle less and less as it tired. Finally, it stopped its struggle for a moment.

In that moment, the spider raced from it's perch and dashed straight for the yellow jackets legs. In a split second, it spun around the yellow jackets legs and...hog tied it. The yellow jackets legs were immediately immobilized with sticky web.

The spider then jumped on the bees back. The bee began to struggle violently. The spider reared up on it's back legs while balancing on a single thread, and then, it sank it's fangs deep into the yellow jacket.

As the bee began to succumb to the spiders venom, the spider looped around it, wrapping it in more sticky web.

Finally, the yellow jacket stopped moving altogether. The spider, with great effort, then dragged it back to it's perch, and drained it dry of its vital fluids.

The time between the yellow jacket flying into the web and the spider devouring it? Just under 6 minutes.

Just goes to show, one minute you're on top, the next... you're food for a spider.

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