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I haven’t posted here for a while so here is an invasive and #AsianHornet (Vespa velutina) that recorded in France this summer. This one was in the Pays de la Loire.
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
Music from James Tatman
https://open.spotify.com/track/2AnO5mrS95btViZ31naXm1?si=twMH2sMgTf-GJq9518NU0w
A crab #spider (Misumena vatia) giving a #fly (Lucilia sericata?) a cuddle!
Ambush predators, this spider moves from bloom to bloom on the rose in our front garden and lies in wait.
There's something comforting about Camponotus, the world's second most diverse ant genus (probably?). There are always species that look very much like ones from home, wherever you go, and wherever you're from.
This is Camponotus innexus, which I encountered in Australia.
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Alex Wild