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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pepsinae » Mud-nesting Spider Wasps (Ageniellini) » Auplopus
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Spider wasp - Auplopus
Copyright © 2011 Gary Budnik

Spider wasp - Auplopus
Howell, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
July 20, 2011
This wasp chewed off the spiders legs before flying away with it.
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Contributed by Gary Budnik on 20 July, 2011 - 5:16pm
Last updated 21 July, 2011 - 7:06am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 21 July, 2011 - 7:06am login or register to post comments

Auplopus...
architectus or something close to it. Species ID is impossible from this image.
… Nick Fensler, 21 July, 2011 - 6:10am login or register to post comments

It probably didn't even feel
It probably didn't even feel the pain of it's limbs, Maybe it's like novocaine until you are dead. I don't understand how many days the spider are zombied before they are eaten alive by the wasps young. I guess they can still breathe or is it like coma to humans?
… bugwonderer, 20 July, 2011 - 7:12pm login or register to post comments

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