During the photoshoot yesterday at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, our instructor spotted a large wasp attacking an even larger spider. When he approached the insects, the wasp released the prey temporarily and turned towards him. All of us were alerted and stepped away. I managed to take a few photos (mostly out of focus) from afar.
Relating the incidence to my older boy, telling him how a smaller wasp was going to "eat up" the hairy big spider, he replied in his usual coolness that the wasp was just trying to reproduce and the spider was not dead yet. At least not until the eggs laid by the wasp inside the abdomen of the spider has hatched into larva, than the spider will be eaten up from within. YEE...IGS.
FYI
few more photos
Relating the incidence to my older boy, telling him how a smaller wasp was going to "eat up" the hairy big spider, he replied in his usual coolness that the wasp was just trying to reproduce and the spider was not dead yet. At least not until the eggs laid by the wasp inside the abdomen of the spider has hatched into larva, than the spider will be eaten up from within. YEE...IGS.
FYI
few more photos
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2 comments:
The wonders of nature! Spiders, too, can be vicious and amazingly powerful, for example-- http://snipurl.com/4mu39
Thanks for sharing.I better watch out for spider web from now on, for I may become the next piece of news - "spider update - the ultimate spider/human interaction"
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