| 1. | :What you saw was probably a pompilid wasp, or spider wasp.
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| 2. | These spider wasps often hunt huntsman spiders.
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| 3. | This is one of the hosts for the kleptoparasitic spider wasp " Ceropales maculata ".
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| 4. | These wasps are known as spider wasps because the females capture spiders to provide their offspring with food.
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| 5. | The Spider Wasps of the subfamily Ctenocerinae found in the Neotropics, Africa and Australia are specialised hunters of trapdoor spiders.
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| 6. | The nesting behaviour is quite complex compared to most other spider wasps and shows the behavioural versatility of the female wasp.
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| 7. | They walked slowly toward each other, both scissoring their wings ( whereas vertical wing flicking is normal in spider wasps ).
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| 8. | Enemies of the trapdoor spider include certain pompilids ( spider wasps ), which seek out the burrows and manage to gain entrance.
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| 9. | They are called spider wasps, because the female of many species when ready to lay eggs hunts for a spider and then stings it.
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| 10. | The adult spider wasp " Tachypompilus ferrugineus " uses the flowers of " C . floribunda " as a nectar source.
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