Ivy Visitors 12

Top of the ivy league today, the central image, is the large garden/diadem spider. Her web-building skills have already topped the ivy league but today I'm celebrating her provisioning prowess and her appetite. She had wrapped two wasps and left them hanging from her web. She took one to her lair and ate it before lunch. After lunch I watched her collect the second. She carefully freed it from the web and hung it on a single line dangling from one leg to transport it back to her leafy abode.

There was a faint buzzing in the ivy bush today and some different visitors arrived, including Eristalis drone flies. A very neat stripe-backed fleckwing hoverfly appeared again and I shot the striking black and white abdomen of some sort of flesh fly. Got a reasonable shot of a Drosophila fruit fly which I remember my son working with in the lab. A small spider had caught a green lacewing fly in its web. An unusual, long-legged sort of 'gnat' or midge visited. Interesting to see another different ichneumon wasp whose antennae didn't stop twitching.