Black Wasp
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Change of position, having a go at the deadly mandibles, which may still be a threat – if only to her young.

Job almost done, package nearly ready, she prepares to carry spider away to her home in the BBB’s nest.
I was pottering around the house and saw this Huntsman limping along the ground.
Limping because some legs were missing and it couldn’t run as Huntsmen do so well.
Limping out into open space when ordinarily it would be in the opposite direction, under cover.
So, thinking it might be confused (for some reason), I gave it a nudge towards the undergrowth.
But it wasn’t having it, kept on heading out into open space and nothing I could do about it.
Then the black wasp with yellow antennae showed up and attacked the spider with a will.
It had already been working on it, spider confused by venom but not yet subdued.
So she, the wasp, stung the spider again, and again, and proceeded to dismember it.
To carry it away to her nest at the edge of the garden, to feed her young.
What they do, we do … our existential nature.
© Mark Berkery … Click on those pictures for a closer look … and click again.
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