the orange wasp on the left just bumped off the spider on the right.
is this a good wasp?

pepe said:

the orange wasp on the left just bumped off the spider on the right.
is this a good wasp?

Well if your scared of spiders….. I’d say the wasp is in the good books;P

Is it an orange spider wasp?

http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_wasps/OrangeSpiderWasp.htm

Looks pretty similar to me..

yep – that’s it.
thanks bon
i’ll just check to see if its got any nasty habit.

It is a good wasp but just don’t sit on it.

I trod on a wingless flower wasp one day.. the pain was excruciating.

roughbarked said:

It is a good wasp but just don’t sit on it.

I trod on a wingless flower wasp one day.. the pain was excruciating.

yep – they are good guys except for the possibility of being bitten – which is remote. so they can go unmolested. they pick on the good spiders tho’.

my earwig plague has passed. mainly because they have stopped breeding young from what i can see.

bon008 said:

Is it an orange spider wasp?

http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_wasps/OrangeSpiderWasp.htm

Looks pretty similar to me..

That’s a pretty amazing site! The family obviously speak English as a second language. I think their first language is either insects, patience or close up photography.

I generally allow all this stuff to happen in my yard.. wasp spider interaction .. helps with things that spiders don’t always get to.

Today for example I had three separate people comment on three different ant colonies in my yard. I just said yeah .. nothing gets past them.. I happen to reckon that the entire catalogue of ants that could possibly live in my climate.. are here.

the kid from across the road said .. what’s that ant? .. I reached an arms length and broke the surface of the soil nearby and hundreds of sugar ants covered the surface.

I don’t use chemicals and it is true that I allow ants to stop termites from coming into my house