18th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Home Sweet Home
Shrike birds, also called butcher birds, impale prey on thorns and barbed wire to attract female birds. Here a grasshopper is impaled on a barb and a spider has made its body its home. The body has become "Home Sweet Home" to the spider.
Photo Detail
Date Taken: | 11.2019 |
Date Uploaded: | 08.2020 |
Photo Location: | Yorktown, Texas, United States of America |
Copyright: | © Frank Klein |