Hyloscirtus antioquia (Rivera & Faivovich, 2013)
Rana Chocolate Antioqueña
Santa Rosa de Osos - Antioquia
Love story. Episode 1.
Episode 2: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19150046
Snake dinner to go or a sneaky snail escape?
Voracious spider captured hummingbird in web at sugar feeder. I did not think about location of web, other than it was uncomfortable to avoid when going through garden gate, when I rehung the feeder. A few hours later, she had trapped and beheaded and wrapped the hummingbird.
A scrappy expanse of silky refuges and capture webs littered with body parts of previous victims. When preferred prey is entangled, the female spiders emerge from their 'nests' and overpower it by grabbing its extremities. In this case, a wasp https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9319446.
Presumably they inject venom because after a minute or so the prey stops struggling. Then they snip it out of the web and carry it into one of several 'nests' or refuges.
Unwanted prey, often beetles (see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9319435 ) are also killed but sometimes left in the web, uneaten. Ants, in this case, Maranoplus ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/9319390 )scavenge around the periphery of the webs, feasting on unwanted beetles or other left-overs.
Fascinating sequence of this wasp digging a nest tunnel, and eventually dragging the spider prey into it.
At some point, another wasp showed up, seemingly interested to parasitize the nest:
www.inaturalist.org/observations/16461626
Prey item is found here www.inaturalist.org/observations/16400125
Triangular spider Arkys walckenaeri, Sandfly, Tasmania January 2017
Shiny hair coat all over body. Small size