[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Another bump. Here is a wasp that is absolutely ferocious. I caught this one fighting with another over this large spider. This wasp is known to take spiders that are larger than itself. Wolf spiders are a favorite prey. They search the grass, trees, and rubbish piles for their prey. My yard is very active today.[/quote]
Damn. How big is that spider (as a frame of reference)?
[quote]Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Another bump. Here is a wasp that is absolutely ferocious. I caught this one fighting with another over this large spider. This wasp is known to take spiders that are larger than itself. Wolf spiders are a favorite prey. They search the grass, trees, and rubbish piles for their prey. My yard is very active today.
Damn. How big is that spider (as a frame of reference)?
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The bodies of the wasp and spider are about an inch. The diameter of the spiders leg spread was nearly two inches. That spider is a tree spider. It camos itself against tree bark and waits in ambush for prey. It, however, hasn’t met a wasp like this one until today. That kind of spider would and can eat a wasp like that, but the wasp probably got the jump on her and one sting paralyzed it.
A guesome fact: These spiders that fall victim to these types of wasps do not die. They are chemically paralyzed and kept alive until the wasp egg hatches and the larva eats it to death. Mother Nature’s a BITCH!
[quote]Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Another bump. Here is a wasp that is absolutely ferocious. I caught this one fighting with another over this large spider. This wasp is known to take spiders that are larger than itself. Wolf spiders are a favorite prey. They search the grass, trees, and rubbish piles for their prey. My yard is very active today.
Damn. How big is that spider (as a frame of reference)?
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Those pics are of her dragging the spider back to her burrow.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Rykker wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
Another bump. Here is a wasp that is absolutely ferocious. I caught this one fighting with another over this large spider. This wasp is known to take spiders that are larger than itself. Wolf spiders are a favorite prey. They search the grass, trees, and rubbish piles for their prey. My yard is very active today.
Damn. How big is that spider (as a frame of reference)?
These pics of her dragging the spider back to her burrow. [/quote]
Wicked stuff, dude. Thanks for sharin’.
I keep my eye out for interesting stuff.