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A gatekeeper takes
an erratic hovering flight over the meadow flowers . . . |
. . . and settles down on a creeping
thistle. |
Hoverflies prefer
the open flowers of the dog daisies. |
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The wasp's flight zigzags,
like Zorro slashing the air with his rapier. |
A large bumblebee ponderously
examines the top of a flower of spear thistle while
a smaller bee dashes in and checks out the sides of the flower. |
This fly with quivering antennae
settle on my page. It's of beetle-like proportions. |
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A WHIR OF WINGS,
A FLASH OF YELLOW -
WITH RAPIER-LIKE
PRECISION THE
STRIPED CRUSADER
STRIKES AGAIN!
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Looks like the wasp
has met its match as it suddenly stops and hangs from a web strung
across the flower buds of nipplewort. |
But it's not the spider
that wraps the wasp: it's the wasp that grabs the spider and, in
a minute or two of grappling with it, flies off. (Apparently with
the spider but I glanced down at my drawing at that moment).  |