Wasp buries spider alive, video

This video is about a female wasp, an Anoplius viaticus. She has paralyzed a spider, in order to lay her eggs inside its body. But first, the spider has to fit into a hole in the ground.

Peter Tjeertes from the Netherlands made this video.

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