life and eating a dead rain spider

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The rain spider Palystes spp had been killed by a spider hunting wasp, Tachypompilus ignitus, which lays its eggs on the paralysed spider and uses the carcase as a feed lot for it's young. After it died, I photographed it to show how the black ants were feeding off the body and carrying away at Betty s Bay Cape Province, South Africa

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Size: 4961px × 3789px
Location: Bass road, Betty'sBay, Western Cape, South Africa
Photo credit: © Mike Wesson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ant, ants, black, body, carcase, carry, dead, death, death., donker, feasteat, feed, food, hair, kill, , legs, life, palystes, rain, sad, spider, tachypompilus, wasp, young