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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Vespidae » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Umbrella Paper Wasps (Polistes) » Subgenus Polistes (Polistes Subgenus Polistes) » European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
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Wasp kills Spider - Polistes dominula - female
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Wasp kills Spider - Polistes dominula - Female
Alviso EEC, Santa Clara County, California, USA
September 15, 2018
Image 4: Not a Polistes dominula but the ruined carcass of the victim of one. Here the killer wasp has flown away and, this time, appears to have not carried away any body parts. ((2nd link below)

Thus my question: Why did the wasp attack the spider? Could putting a bite on it for five minutes explain?

Links: Euro Paper Wasp becomes prey of this Argiope spider:



Euor Paper Wasp preys on orbweaver:

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