🐝 Spider Hunting Wasp Nest | naturalEye | el liven
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Date: 2021-11-13

Nesting spider hunting Trypoxylon wasp unfazed by the close attentions of an amateur naturalist.

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A chance sighting in the balcony garden - a Trypoxylon wasp repeatedly entering and leaving the hollow of a bamboo cane. These spider hunting wasps prey on small jumping spiders that are used as food for their larvae. They seal the paralysed spiders into cells in the bamboo hollow and lay an egg on the last one. The larvae then spin a thin cocoon and metamorphose in the pupal stage. The young adult then emerges to complete the life cycle.

Credits
Nesting  photos - Christophe Barthélémy (Personal communication)
Pupal Development - Beatriz Moisset via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) 
🎵 Rachel K Collier - Wasp Kill (No Credit Required)
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📚 References:
Christophe Barthélémy - Nesting biology 
(http://www.hkentsoc.org/bulletin/hongkong_entomological_bulletin2(1).pdf)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypoxylon

Life Cycle:
0:00 Intro
0:14 Entry
0:36 Slomo
1:07 Nesting
1:32 Jumping spider
1:51 Egg
1:57 Larva
2:16 Pupa
2:27 Juvenile
2:38 Outro

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