Common candystripe / Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) female subduing a Common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) with venom and silk, UK.

---

Common candystripe / Comb-footed spider (Enoplognatha ovata) female with a Common red soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) it has bitten and partially wrapped with silk, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

---

Size: 4181px × 3136px
Location: Wiltshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: arachnids, beetle, beetles, behaviour, british, calcareous, candystripe, cantharidae, comb-footed, common, england, enoplognatha, europe, females, fulva, green, hunting, invertebrates, kingdom, meadows, ovata, predation, red, rhagonycha, soldier, spider, spiders, summer, theridiidae, uk, united, venom, white, wildlife, wrapping