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29-05-2009, 11:58 AM
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| |  Spider wearing scarf!
Spotted this on a leaf of Yellow Flag in my local park a few mornings ago. The Green Cucumber Spider ( Araniella cucurbitina) [please correct me if I'm wrong] has some sort of insect larva wrapped around its neck!
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29-05-2009, 12:04 PM
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| | | Re: Spider wearing scarf!
 That's bizarre, Rob, I've never seen anything like it 
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29-05-2009, 12:08 PM
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| | | Re: Spider wearing scarf!
I suppose that's the safest place to be if you are going to be a maggot in such close proximity to a spider!
Well....
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29-05-2009, 12:44 PM
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There are external parasitoids of spiders which attach between the cephalothorax and the abdomen, but I can't remember which group they belong to, and this one looks a bit big. Very intriguing photo. Did the spider seem a bit sluggish? |
29-05-2009, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by poschiavanus  There are external parasitoids of spiders which attach between the cephalothorax and the abdomen, but I can't remember which group they belong to, and this one looks a bit big. Very intriguing photo. Did the spider seem a bit sluggish? | Hi Poschiavanus,
That's interesting info - thanks.
The spider seemed to be going about its spider business normally. I had just disturbed it from a bit of web-making, I think, and I watched it moving along the Yellow Flag leaf for maybe 20cm before I focussed elsewhere,
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29-05-2009, 02:34 PM
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Possibly an Ichneumon wasp larvae ? ... Polysphincta tuberosa - parasitoid wasp |
29-05-2009, 02:43 PM
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Excellent Gordon thanks for that. I have been looking for spider parasite and could find very little. I think you are correct with that id.
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29-05-2009, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Rambling Rob The Green Cucumber Spider (Araniella cucurbitina) [please correct me if I'm wrong] | Certainly an Araniella spp - though it could be A.cucurbitina or A.opisthographa, you can only tell them apart under a microscope
One doomed spider!
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29-05-2009, 08:40 PM
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| |  Re: Spider wearing scarf!
Thanks Venger. Not so much a scarf as a garrotte, then,
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29-05-2009, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Action_Man | Have just been reading that link you provided, Gordon - thank you. Spine-chilling or what!
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