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Non-birding question (RE wasps & spiders)

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Subject: Non-birding question (RE wasps & spiders)
From: James Rolevink <>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:30:28 +1100
My suspicion is that the spiders lost big time, like this huntsman I snapped which was captured by an Australian Native (at least I think it’s Australian Native):



on 14/1/06 6:19 PM, Yarden Oren at wrote:

While on a non birding trend, could someone confirm the following suspicion. A wasp has built tight mud cocoons stuck to the brick wall outside our door. I knocked down the first ones as we didn't want the wasps hanging around there and the cocoons were empty. A fed days later another set was built. When I demolished them, each contained about half a dozen spiders. The spiders were fresh and plump (paralysed I presume and intended to be fresh food to larvae already laid or about to be laid in them). Am I correct? Any more interesting local natural history regarding the phenomenon?

Thanks

Yarden

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Memories of the Emperor Gum moths of one's childhood come  flooding back.  Oddly, we found them mainly on the introduced Peppercorn  Trees, now such a feature of the rural landscape.  
 

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