Mar 23 2005
Death of Wasps
And no, not the death of W.A.S.P.s, I’m talking about the insect here.
Was browsing on New Scientist and noticed the back page featured a question on what eats wasps (apart from stupid birds). Turns out there are quite a few wasp-eaters out there
“Returning home late one night I heard the persistent buzzing of a wasp in the kitchen window. It appeared to be struggling around at the bottom of the window, unable to fly properly. A tiny red spider was attached to the underside of its abdomen. The spider must have been some 20 times smaller than the wasp and was positioned where the wasp was unable to mount a counter-attack.
The next morning revealed an empty, transparent wasp exoskeleton
- from New Scientist’s Back Page (link may die in a week or so)
