Small (yellow) Spider with big Catch.

[Satishchandra Ranadive]

Too much of a camouflafe...Yellow wall, red -yellow flower and yellow Spider.
There was no time to change the position ,since spider was dragging the bee upwords very fast.I could manage to take tow pictures.Picture is cropped.
Canon450D+100-400mm.
f:6.3.
Exposure:1/320.
ISO:200.

[Mrudul Godbole]

The vertical composition is nice. The plain wall offers a nice clean background. You could have increased the ISO for a higher aperture. Nice action captured. Thanks for sharing.

[Sagar Patil]

Nice action.. rare to see....TFS

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice. Agree about the aperture. A less bright BG would have been nice. It is a Crab Spider.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Agree with the previous comments. Good one. Great that you could click it in time. This was in your home? Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Vikram Gupchup]

Wonderful moment , nicely captured. Liked the extended sting of the bee with the little drop stuck to it. I think a little more space at the top would be nice to emphasize the strength of the spider silk.

[Nitin Choudhary]

naiice.... great timing n composition

[Nitin Choudhary]

what is that droplet on the bee sting?? is tat it's poison?

[Saurabh Bhatia]

very clear, symbolic too

Nitin: It is possible, though a little far-fetched for the droplet to be poison. Bee's sting is designed to be inserted and then breaks off, practically killing the bee due to torn abdomen. There is constant release of toxins from it after that. So my guess is that the design is to insert the sting first and not really push venom first.
it is not like snake fangs where droplets of poison come on the tip of the hypodermic-syringe-like fangs.

However, a bit of it leaks out too, as the canal is made of 2 parts rubbing against each other.

This is gyaan from Nat Geo... :001_tongue:

See this for details http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/stingstructure.html

[Bibhav Behera]

Lovely image. The sting is visible. Nicely done. Thanks for sharing.

[Nitin Choudhary]

thanks Saurabh for all the gyan...

[Krishna Bhat]

Difficult to digest. Lucky to get this:blush: