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.
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.
They’re expert at this..and so are the potter wasps in feeding their young.
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Potter wasps: see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_wasp
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