Far From the Madding Crowd: Wasp Spider with it's Mate or Potential Dinner, if he gets it wrong:-)

Wednesday 28 August 2013

Wasp Spider with it's Mate or Potential Dinner, if he gets it wrong:-)

Wasp Spider with it's Mate or Potential Dinner, if he gets it wrong:-), a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

Found the Wasp Spiders at Morden Bog, found three, this one had a mate (poor chap)

3 comments:

holdingmoments said...: It's tough out in the countryside.

Never seen one of these yet. Excellent shot.; 28 August 2013 at 16:39
Roy Norris said...: Risky business being a male Wasp Spider Lyn.{:))
Nice shot anyway.; 28 August 2013 at 19:34
Linda Yarrow said...: She's quite a lady, not to be messed with;-) It was spider's heaven along the hedgerow in the field, different species and so many of them.; 28 August 2013 at 20:25

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.