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An abandoned-web orb-weaver (Parawixia dehaani), also known as the common garden spider, is hunting by constructing a vertical orb web to detect prey that lands or moves nearby. Parawixia dehaani is utilizing its senses of sight, vibration, and touch to effectively target insects such as flies, butterflies, and bees, some of which may be larger than the spider itself. A juvenile abandoned-web orb-weaver (Parawixia dehaani) spider is catching a Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia Illucens) with its web and is killing it by bundling it with its saliva or silk, then hiding and almost camouflaging behind a dry leaf, waiting for the next prey in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on October 10, 2025.
An abandoned-web orb-weaver (Parawixia dehaani), also known as the common garden spider, is hunting by constructing a vertical orb web to detect prey that lands or moves nearby. Parawixia dehaani is utilizing its senses of sight, vibration, and touch to effectively target insects such as flies, butterflies, and bees, some of which may be larger than the spider itself. A juvenile abandoned-web orb-weaver (Parawixia dehaani) spider is catching a Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia Illucens) with its web and is killing it by bundling it with its saliva or silk, then hiding and almost camouflaging behind a dry leaf, waiting for the next prey in a forest in Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on October 10, 2025.
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