> Now I find very large mostly black jumping spiders under my beehive top lid. No doubt they are well fed on some of the bees (I've seen one eating/drinking one

> Now I find very large mostly black jumping spiders under my beehive top lid. No doubt they are well fed on some of the bees (I've seen one eating/drinking one). Same here! Hives that have an inner cover sometimes have several of these, and they get to be really big. I imagine they snack on a bee a day or so.