Spider vs. Wasp 0:1 - Round 1 (46 sec) K.O.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:10 am

The spider does look a bit Tarantula like but that would make that wasp to be huge!
I think it could be a wolf spider(Lycosidae), which are cool hunting spiders. The females carry their eggs around with them on their buuts!

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:15 pm

WooHoo

Got my first two page topic.

Actually wasp is about 45mm in lenght without antennae.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:56 am

If anyone get a closer or exact ID for this wasp let me know please. Many thanks folks!

jorgemotalmeida · Post by **jorgemotalmeida** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:54 pm

Pompilidae wasp.
It seems that pronotum touchs the tegula.

it cannot be Vespidae because the eyes are not emarginated. So I would be more for Pompilidae wasp.

ANother reason: Vespidae seems that doesn´t attack spiders... (if I'm wrong let me know).

Usually, Sphecidae, Pompilidae attacks the spiders. (in this case this is not clearly Sphecidae wasp).

The spider belongs to the Lycosidae family.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:23 am

Thank you very much Jorge!

You are of great help. We got a new authority for insects, don't you think folks?

jorgemotalmeida · Post by **jorgemotalmeida** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:37 am

MacroLuv wrote:Thank you very much Jorge!
You are of great help. We got a new authority for insects, don't you think folks?

lol I'm not an authority, neither I want to be one -- indeed, in real Science there is no authority (the times of pos-Aristoteles had just passed) . I still have so much to learn. I know something - i.e. almost nothing

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:19 am

Wonderful sequence.

It captured the life and death nature struggle very well. I never thought the wasp would win.

Irwin

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:42 am

Thanks Irwin.

jorgemotalmeida wrote: lol I'm not an authority, neither I want to be one -- indeed, in real Science there is no authority (the times of pos-Aristoteles had just passed) . I still have so much to learn. I know something - i.e. almost nothing

By the way, there is a byword in my country that man and donkey together knows more than man alone.