Blue Spider Wasp Spotted Amputates all of a Spider’s Legs in Just Seconds
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A blue spider wasp (Auplopus comparatus) has been filmed amputating the legs of a spider in Singapore. Where the footage of 50 seconds was shot on Coney Island and uploaded on April 9, 2021, on the Singapore Wildlife Sightings Facebook group. In the video, the blue spider wasp crawled on top of the spider after it has stung the spider with venom and within just 40 seconds, the wasp removed all the spider’s leg and fly away with the spider’s body.
Posted by Dazzy Charm on Friday, April 9, 2021
Spider wasps can be found almost everywhere in the world and such spider hunting wasp have the habit of cutting off the legs of spiders before transporting the body back to the nest and the wasp will laid egg on the spider which then will enable the wasp to grab which will feed on the internal juices of the spider. And the grub will forms into a pupa then emerge as an adult wasp.
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