Notes on Drassodes cupreus

Drassodes cupreus and cocoon Copyright: Martin Askins
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A NOTE ON A POMPILID WASP PREDATOR by J. R. Parker

From The Newsletter No. 25 August 1979

On the 14th June 1978, on the occasion of the Nature Conservancy's Survey for invertebrates in Argyll, Scotland, Mr. John Cooter, Keeper of Natural History at Hereford Museum was a member of the party when we were collecting in Glen Nant Forest Reserve. On a forest track he took a female of the hunting wasp Procnemis perturbator (Harris) which had captured a large and powerful female Drassoclcs cupreusTBlackwall) which was being dragged with some difficulty by the wasp along the ground, presumably to a burrow where the wasp would have laid an egg or eggs on the paralysed spider and thereby provide food for the grubs when the eggs hatched. Both were shown to me and the spider identified.
 
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