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Several species of spider, collected by wasps to lay their eggs, I accidentally destroyed the nest that had been build inside a box.
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Spotted on Jul 21, 2013
Submitted on Jul 23, 2013
4 Comments
Not sure how long it takes for the larvae to hatch, when I found the spiders they were still moving.
My mother used to have an old entomology textbook, and I always thought the wasp larvae emerging from the body of the unfortunate host was just about the grossest picture in it. Do the spiders regain their movement before the larvae hatch? Seems like they'd turn on each other pretty quick.
There were even more spiders they were alive but unable to move, as the wasp paralyze them, to lay a egg inside them, for the love to eat ....(larves develop inside the spiders)
Amazing! Were all the spiders dead? Did the wasps come back for them even though the nest was gone? That's quite a collection!