The Duel by ShadowsNTime

Photography • Insects • posted on Aug 03, 2009

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Maitenance and I were outside with Tanner when we saw this bright yellow caterpillar crawling along the window ledge. To our amazement then came this little bee that attacked as you can see, it attacked over and over from different angles. This is only a few of the photos I got as this occurred over almost a half hours time. I found it very interesting that the bee appeared never to get a sting in and the caterpillar was the clear winner as the bee finally gave up and left. I have never seen this before or heard of such a thing happening either. If any of you have I would love to hear from you. Of course I looked up the info below. There were lots of pictures but little info. The moth is a grey with small black markings. Acronicta americana - American Dagger Moth Moderately large, densely clothed in long white or yellowish setae of variable length; long, paired black lashes on first and third abdominal segments and unpaired medial lash on eighth segment. Head black. Food: maples and many other forest hardwoods. Thanks for looking and for previous comments and favs!

Comments (26)

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lizzibell

11:37PM | Mon, 03 August 2009

great collage..

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lior

12:53AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Excellent!

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DarkStormCrow

1:12AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Very nice captures, well done...

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durleybeachbum

2:47AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

THat's a wasp, Lynn! I think he failed to get a sting in because the hairs on the creature are longer than his equipment!! SUPERB set of pics, so very interesting!

PD154

6:28AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

I have seen this behaviour before, your yellow jacket probably has a nest somewhere with similar piantwork, so then therefore this catty was then seen as a threat, mind you that aside, it's already a highly well known fact that wasps can be real S*&T heads when it comes to using their nasty little daggers, great series of pics BTW

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Styxx

7:39AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

You should shoot for national geographic Lynn!! Great ones here!

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flavia49

7:59AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

superb collage !!! terrific!!

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Rainastorm

8:36AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Oh wow...lol I can't believe you actually got it on camera...lol That is SOOoo cool! I always miss the cool stuff LOL GREAT job Lynn and awesome collage! :-)

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magnus073

8:40AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Great shots Lynn and no matter what the reason I'm glad he wasn't able to hurt the little guy :)

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MrsRatbag

8:53AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Wonderful series of shots; what a drama!

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sandra46

10:17AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!wonderful!terrific collage!

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emmecielle

11:16AM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Excellent collage! :)

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farmerC

12:48PM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Fantastice collage.

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BessieB

2:37PM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Dreadful little things wasps are! I would think the hairs on the caterpillar stopped it getting too close. Well spotted

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jendellas

4:02PM | Tue, 04 August 2009

Wow he was angry about something, great collage.

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orig_buggy

4:09PM | Tue, 04 August 2009

almost looks like a love affair..lol

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tennesseecowgirl

6:11PM | Tue, 04 August 2009

this reminds me of a little stuffed caterpillar toy I had when I was probably 6 or 7, I have a photo of me with it somewhere. and yah for the caterpillar.

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