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What looks like a very small dauber fly (1/4 in long maybe) has a legless spider in it's grasps. It carried it quite a long way and quickly. I wasn't able to see where it took the spider to.
west central ga
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Thank you! It definitely did have parts and even whole legs missing, so that may have been part of the strategy to incapacitate the spider. It was very interesting to see.
HI, a Good sequence of pictures, these wasps are parasites, they introduce the eggs inside the spider. Maybe it was inoculated first with some poison to immobilize it. It the wasp was carrying it, surely was trying to introduce it in a den in the ground.