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Drama in our garden !
In the late afternoon I have witnessed an amazing event. A young wall lizard got caught in the web of a pair of common house spiders, and hanging by the tail, was unable to get away. After waiting for a couple of hours the female spider made its move, and started to secure its prey.

EDIT: after struggling in the web for nearly 24 hours (and being repeatedly bitten in the tail by the female spider) a beam of direct warm afternoon sunlight gave just enough extra energy to the lizard that it managed to break itself free.

This record is of the insect on the left of the picture. The insect on the right is recorded at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176968517.

The insect on the right appears to be eating the insect on the left. I have put a video here:

• https://youtu.be/1fpOLgV7_Pw

Looking like a record of the first example of a UK mammal in with a biofluorescent trait? Shot using 365nm UV torch

It’s a odd one. UV blue and pink have been seen in mammals in other parts of the world. But never yellow as far as I can tell