I found something quite odd. This very elongated wasp kept flying into the porch, apparently to buzz around a clump of mud, about the size of a chicken egg, stuck in the inside of the side of a piece of furniture. At first, I thought the elongated wasp was making a nest, so I lit up incense to smoke it out, then closed the window.
I went to investigate the clump of mud, and poked it, and then several dead, dried-up spiders fell out of it. They were yellow with dark dots, classically arachnid, with balanced abdomen, legs, and head, neither too big nor too small, definitely NOT the usual daddy long legs or wolf spiders. So, afterwards, I took a plastic pitcher to scoop the clump of mud off the piece of furniture, and went to throw it outside.
Inside the pitcher were a dozen or so dead yellow spiders, dried-up like the previous ones, obviously having fallen out of the mud. So, I decided to dump them atop an upright stump. I could see that the clump of mud was flat on one side, revealing two elongated holes, and stuffed inside were many more dried-up yellow spiders, all obviously dead.
It was definitely the oddest thing I had ever seen. Not sure if those two-inch long elongated wasps hunt spiders and stuff them in mud clumps stuck on things, but it was quite an eerie sight.
13-Jul-2017 01:08:19
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Azi Demonica
