Notes on Drassodes cupreus
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.
Added by John Partridge at 16:46 on Mon 9th Jan 2012.
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