It's been said that the bees need us and we need the bees for pollinating.
However another flying creature is a bit of a strong predator who likes spiders. And paralyzes the spiders so that they can be used for food for their young.
We know that spiders can and do paralyze their food trapped in their webs to keep the food alive and the juices fresh for eating..
I was watching a mud dauber going after a spider who had made a web on one of my security cameras. This wasp walked on the web, not getting stuck, took the spider, stung it, and flew away to its nest.
Fascinating little creature. I had seen a few of them around the property a few days ago, and was fascinating seeing this type of body.
From: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress...s-are-zombies/
Mud daubers collect these spiders to feed their young. Mud daubers are often even better than scientists at finding spiders, capturing up to 25 spiders in a day.Paralysed and waiting: We accidentally broke open a mud-dauber wasp nest under our house yesterday while moving some equipment.
The mud cells were packed with paralysed jumping spiders of multiple species. The adult female wasp captures and paralyses the spiders and then packs them into the mud cells. She then lays an egg before closing the cell over with mud.
The spiders are paralysed, but not killed so that they do not rot and the wasp larva can consume them over time. I rearranged the contents of one cell for this photograph. A wasp larva is in the centre in the process of consuming a spider.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-09-team-w...pider.html#jCp
Nest making:
At least my camera lenses are kept clean this way ! And a wasp goes on to live another day..