Week in pictures
28th April to 3rd May, 2018
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Deinopis subrufa
The spider weaves a net using an elastic type of silk and hangs in a vertical position watching with its huge eyes for a prey item to pass beneath it.
Order: Aranea; Family: Deinopidae
Deinopis subrufa
The huge central pair of eyes of this spider enables it to hunt at night.
Order: Aranea; Family: Deinopidae
Deinopis subrufa
The spider weaves a net using an elastic type of silk and hangs in a vertical position watching with its huge eyes for a prey item to pass beneath it.
Order: Aranea; Family: Deinopidae
Trichogramma funiculatum
This tiny wasp - about half a millimetre long - emerged from a lacewing egg in which it developed as a parasite
Order: Hymenoptera; Family: Trichogrammidae
Trichogramma funiculatum
Here is the same wasp at a larger scale.
Order: Hymenoptera; Family: Trichogrammidae
