Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My season got off to a weird start!, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
UGH! Bad spider!!! I know this is the way of nature but I still show 'em my way...by knocking them to the ground and stomping on them. Either that or squish them between the leaf they are on. Have seen gobs of butterflies caught by insects over the years and I know there's nothing that will save the butterfly after it's been injected by a spider's venom but it's still sad to see.

Phil Schappert (author of A World of Butterflies, The Last Monarch Butterfly) comes down to the south Texas a few times a year - a couple of years ago I nicknamed him Dr Death because he was going around photographing every butterfly we saw in the clutches of a spider, praying mantis, assasin bug etc. The morbidity must have rubbed off on me because I know catch myself photographing the same!!!

~ Cat



This message was edited Mar 29, 2007 10:27 PM