Web Design, Bee Beard Log Hive in background
When I first saw the insect in this web, I thought it was one of my bees because it’s in the flight path to the Bee Beard Log Hive. I was much relieved when I realized it was a wasp. Over the next few days of checking her web I was able to capture some very close up video of “Fang” wrapping her victims and injecting them with her venom. Here’s a creepy video accompanied by some creepy music provided by my brother, Elliott.
If you hate wasps, you’ll love this video…if you hate spiders, you’ll be happy they are smaller than we are.
Hmmmm…I wonder what the male is up to.
Adventures in Natural Beekeeping 
Great song, Elliot. It really works with the film!
The male may be thinking up a strategy.
I hear that in order to mate the male has to advance toward the female with some food wrapped up for a present. Some guys fake it and wrap up an old leaf or piece of dirt. That doesn’t work too well. She usually unwraps the present first. Uh-Oh.
I’m not going to draw any parallels to human behavior or I’ll be in trouble!
Neat footage!
Thanks…it’s one of those lucky occasions when the video is mostly in focus.
Yeah it’s lovely!
Gruesome but fascinating all at the same time! I can see from one of those frames why there are all these mysterious dots of something on our toilet tank cover beneath Cheryl’s web….