They met on a flower and neither would give way.
http://www.pbase.com/crustacean/imag...6/original.jpg
Armour plated beetle (Oedemera nobilis) versus fierce killer Crab Spider (Misumena vatia).
Place your bets on the result now!
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They met on a flower and neither would give way.
http://www.pbase.com/crustacean/imag...6/original.jpg
Armour plated beetle (Oedemera nobilis) versus fierce killer Crab Spider (Misumena vatia).
Place your bets on the result now!
I think the eight wheeler will win out
I'll place my bet on the spider.
Well don't keep us in suspense too long ... who won?
:)
Isn't this like putting a cannibal and a vegetarian in a locked room, giving both a knife and fork and asking who's going live longest?
(No offence inteneded to anyone)
And the result was:
http://www.pbase.com/crustacean/imag...7/original.jpg
When you are called 'nobilis' you don't step aside for some upstart oik of a spider; even if they do have poison fangs.
The beetle just kept on walking in a straight line.
But like most confrontations, it was pointless because the beetle had reached 'the end of the road' on that flower anyway!