Thread: mud dauber wasp cocoon

Fantastic stuphph!!

Thanks for sharing!!Once watched a wasp drag a spider over about 250 metres to its nest. The las bit required it to haul the thingabout 3metres up a wall. Incredible!

My father watched a wasp swoop on a spider one day- a big wolfiie -that tried to defend itself. The wasps response was to zip around behind the spider and nip its legs off!!..

Another fellow described how he had watched some wasps at work along the banks of the Murray. One lazy bugger simply waited for another wasp tobring home the bacon. It then nipped into the excavated hole/nest, removed the tucker and took it to its own abode.!!

artme - reminds me of a BBC documentary on penguins. They build their nests on a rock shelf out of pebbles......from a beach over a mile away !

Most of the penguins went shuffling off on multiple trips to the beach, coming back each time with a couple of large pebbles cradled on their feet. As you'd expect, there were also a few penguins who stayed at home and built their entire nest out of stolen pebbles.

You could see the look on the workers faces when they came back to their nest from another long haul to the beach..."Whoa - I'm sure I had more than that. These guys wouldn't steal from me though.....nah, not my mates. Oh well, back to the beach."

A bit like life really........

Nature is fascinating. Thanks for sharing with us.

Cool thanks for showing every one.

those poor spiders are creepy aren't they. All paralized and just flopping out. You can nearly hear them screaming. I have top watch that they don't build their nests in the teapot spouts. With the clay they find in the shed.

The thing I find fascinating is that the wasp must have looked for those spiders in quite a variety of shrubs/trees/grass based on the variety of the colours, my favourite is the one with the feathers for palps(the bits they wave about to signal other spiders)


Pete

We had simlar wasps at my parents house except they used to chew away at the bricks the house was made of and use that to build their nests. I also found if you go after them with a can of flyspray they attack back. Sometimes they will see you coming before you even get a chance to spray and attack.

I'm no expert but it's probably a species thing...whether they r aggressive or not, there are some here that will attack if u go near, these ones make a hanging string of papery cocoons which they guard ferociously, I find the mud dauber ones to be a lot more placid

Pete

It's like watching Aliens and waiting for the eggs to hatch before a nasty jumps on your face and sucks you dry.

Poor little spidies watching and waiting to see who gets a leg nibbled at and you can't move to do a thing about it.