Monday, June 7, 2010

The Hunt Continues

6/7/10 The earwig began to move when the light went on. I dropped in a piece of wadded tissue drenched with water. Neither has touched it. The earwig kept moving toward it and then backed away. I might have dropped into part of the webb.

The spider attacts. This time the earwig swings up the pintures, twisting, contorting in his effort to grab the spider. It backs off, back to his web. Earwig discovers the moth on the floor. The spider jerks it up with a strand of webb still attached until only one end lies within reach of the earwig. Coming at it from the wing end, the earwig is able to to chew at it, turning it, searching for an edible part. Not much there, but how many bites does it take to fill an earwigs stomach!

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