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posted by [identity profile] gorengal.livejournal.com at 05:05am on 29/08/2010
Poor worm. :( Last year I posted a picture of the mud wasp nest by my front door. What I didn't post was pictures of the inside of the nest...it was packed with spiders, all paralyzed by the wasp venom. According to what I read, the spiders were alive, with an egg laid inside them...and when the egg hatched they would be its food. :(

I sure don't understand why we need wasps.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 01:49am on 30/08/2010
That's so sad. Poor spiders. I mean, I know it's part of nature and that's the way the wasps ensure their next generation survives, but even so, it's just so gruesome. Getting eaten alive from the inside, poor things. :(

I...think they pollinate some things? And since tobacco hornworms are actually huge agricultural pests, they actually get used as organic, chemical-free pest control for tomato farms, so they do have a purpose. So it's just that nature is yucky, really.
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posted by [identity profile] gorengal.livejournal.com at 05:15am on 30/08/2010
Wasps are very ineffective as pollinators other than the fig wasp and some orchid wasp in Australia. But they are effective predators and do control the spider population, which I appreciate...but I could do without their aggression.

Nature is yucky...I agree. :D
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