Wouldn’t you know it! While I was wearing my beek gloves this evening I spotted him crawling through the grass. It was a daddy long leg spider carrying a honey bee in its mouth. Had my gloves on so was not able to get a picture.
At first I thought this had been a very odd occurrence. Then after I thought about it for bit 2&2 finally came together. Of coarse the eat honey bees they are spiders.
The question is have any of you encountered such a thing? I have to think this is probably a very common thing.
Just a correction there. Daddy longlegs aren’t actually spiders, they belong to the same class of arachnids but have only 2 eyes, no venom nor silk, see the wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones). They will also not “hunt”, they are scavengers, if they find a dead one they’ll eat it.
Thank you for the reply. I don’t know anything about daddy long legs. It was just interesting to see one carrying a honey bee off. It’s good to know they aren’t threatening to my colonies.