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Orange spider wasp dragging huntsman

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This video was filmed on my back deck in Botanic Ridge an outer south eastern suburb of Melbourne at the end of January 2018. It shows an orange spider wasp (cryptocheilus bicolor) dragging a paralysed huntsman spider back to its nest. The wasp is dragging the hapless spider up a brick wall, at one point losing its grip wasp and spider fall down onto deck and scaffold. The wasp drags the spider back up the wall and across a windowsill. When back at the nest the wasp lay’s a single egg in the spiders abdomen. Once hatched the larvae eats the spider from the inside out. Leaving it’s vital organs till last, so the spider remains alive for as long as possible and fresh for consumption.

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