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Spider´s salad.

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Field Notes

Description:

Several species of spider, collected by wasps to lay their eggs, I accidentally destroyed the nest that had been build inside a box.

Habitat:

rainforest

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
Jonathan Sequeira
Not sure how long it takes for the larvae to hatch, when I found the spiders they were still moving.
shebebusynow
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.
Jonathan Sequeira
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)
shebebusynow
Amazing! Were all the spiders dead? Did the wasps come back for them even though the nest was gone? That's quite a collection!
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PublishedJuly 23, 2013

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