The meal is served..
..in nature's restaurant. The crab spider hanging on a single thin silk thread, after a short fight with the bee, found the right position on the bees neck nfor the leathal bite and then dragged the bee (effortlessly as it seemed) up on to the oleander flower where he consumed the pray in peace.
And why, you may ask, do bees fall pray to the spider crab? Well, it appears that this spider has evolved several strategies to exploit the response of the bees to visual signals and it uses its colour scheme reflectance of UV light to create colour contrast in the visual field that attracts the bees. That's pretty clever if you ask me!
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