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Originally Posted by Sharnbrook
No 5 is interesting, as there is a maggot/grub/caterpillar BEHIND the mouthparts of the spider, and one has to wonder what it's doing there. It's almost as if the spider has had a few sucks on it, and put the rest behind its ear, as if it was a fag-end, which s/he is going to finish later. Generally, the insect is either eaten there and then, or wrapped up in a silken parcel for consumption later. Do you know what happened to it?
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AWESOME!!!!
that grub is actually a parasite sucking at the spider like a leech. eventually the spider will die and the grub will finish it off and then spin a cocoon to change into an adult wasp.
one i saw on a David Attenborough documentry ('life in the undergrowth', even if you dont like creepy crawlies, its an awesome documentry and worth getting) injects a chemical into the spider when its ready to eat it. the chemical eventually kills the spider, but before the spider dies the chemical effects its brain and makes the spider build a big tangly bundle of web. then after the grub has sucked all the juice from the dead spider, it wraps its self in the the tangly web to use as its cocoon!!!
all the pictures are awesome, but that one is particually special.
Jarrod