Hello all,
I thought I'd share this pic - I find these wasps very fascinating. The females fly around in late September looking for unwitting spiders. Once located, she flies down and administers a paralyzing sting to her eight-legged victim. The spider is completely immobilized, however, still very much alive. The Wasp then drags the spider along the ground at an alarmingly quick pace (considering the spider outweighs her many times over). She stuffs the paralyzed spider down a hole that she has dug in the sand and deposits a single egg (sometimes more than one) onto the spider. She seals the hole up and the living (yet paralyzed) spider is forced to wait until the young wasps emerge to feed on its still living body!
Pretty nifty I think!
Cheers,
Ryan
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