Spider Fighting With an Insect Caught in Its' Web

I was standing on these large boulders when I looked down and, between two of them was this rather large spider attacking and pulling on this long millipede-like bug that had managed to get tangled in its' web. My camera doesn't record up close to well, and even if it did, I'd have probably scared the spider back down in to its' nest between the two rocks.

The 1" long orange-ish colored millipede (I don't know exactly what kind of insect it was) is almost the same shade as the orange-ish/ brown leaf on which the spider is standing for the first half of the video. If you look closely, you can see it squirming slightly, even though it had to have been bitten numerous times by the spider by that point.

At 4:14 the spider decided to head back down in to its' nest, trying to drag the insect with it. The insect, however, was still holding on to the leaf with all its' might, and appears in the video as a thin string-like hair dangling from the leaf, pointing downward, pretty much in the center of the screen. If you look closely, you can still see it squirming as the spider is trying to pull it free down in to its' nest.

I have no clue what the spider was doing making all of those clockwise revolutions. Perhaps trying to get the insect all twisted, tangled and bunched up?

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Pets & Animals

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• spider
• insect
• fight
• fighting
• nature
• bite
• biting
• nest
• web