Another Day In The Garden...Spider Wasp vs Huntsman Spider

The sun rises, the birds start singing. Just another day in the garden. When you be still you see more of what is moving. Creatures going about their daily business. Birds are singing. Sun is shining. It’s just another day. Life is strange. Life is good. The SPIDER WASP. Family - Pompilidae Super Family - Vespoida Suborder - Apocrita Order - Hymenoptera Class - Insecta Subphylum - Uniramia Phylum - Arthopoda Kingdom - Animalia The Spider Wasp most commonly encountered is Cryptochelius Bicolor, a very large, black wasp with orange wings and legs with a broad orange band around its abdomen. Spider Wasps live in urban areas, gardens, forests and woodlands, wetlands and heath throughout Australia. They are solitary wasps that do not form colonies to defend communal nests. Spider Wasps are most active during the summer period, often seen digging in soft, sandy soil or moving with a jumping motion around trees, cracks and crevices while searching for a spider. They prey on spiders to feed their larvae or parasitise other spider wasps. The spider wasps you are most likely to see and hear are female wasps preparing nest chambers for their larvae. They dig a burrow using long spines on their front legs, then search rapidly around tree trunks and on the ground for a spider. On finding the spider, which may be as large as a huntsman or funnel-web and twice as heavy as itself, the wasp stings and paralyses it, and then drags or flies it back to the burrow. She then lays an egg on the spider's body, and seals it in a chamber or cell at the end of the burrow. The larva hatches and feeds on the body of the spider before pupating in a thin silky cocoon in the cell. Some spider wasps sting the spider and lay an egg on it but do not dig a burrow to put it in. The spider is left where it was stung and the larva hatches and eats the spider. A small number of Spider Wasps steal spiders from other Spider Wasps for their own larva. This behaviour is known as klepto-parasitism (klepto: Ancient Greek for 'theft'). Spider Wasps have a potentially painful sting. However they are not overly aggressive and are unlikely to use their venom on humans unless extremely provoked. Like following one around closely with a camera. THANKS FOR WATCHING! If you enjoyed the video, please give it a LIKE! If you LIKED this video, please COMMENT! If you enjoy the content please SUBSCRIBE! Photography/Editing - GOOD MIXER MEDIA Music in this video: Song: Noctuary Artist: BONOBO Album: DIAL "M" FOR MONKEY Release: 9/6/2003 Label: NINJA TUNE (ZENCD80) _________________________________ Song: Flutter Artist: BONOBO Album: DIAL "M" FOR MONKEY Release: 9/6/2003 Label: NINJA TUNE (ZENCD80) ___________________________________ Song: A PECULIAR SUMMER EVE Artist: I.O.U.I. (Vittorio Cherici/Gabrielle Gori) Album: Demo Release: 6/2008 Label: Vaiflo Music ____________________________________ Song: Drum Solo Artist: Max Roach ____________________________________ Song: Drum Solo Billy Cobham FROM OMKRING MIDNAT DENMARK TV 1968 ____________________________________ #nature #wildlife #spiderwasp