How To Care For Paralysed Spider

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Slavkleos

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I found an orange spider wasp (heterodontonyx bicolor) carrying a female Sydney grey huntsman (isopeda villosa). I have experience carrying for spiders and currently have about 8. Is there anything I should know for nursing the girl? The wasp flew off after it stupidly thought I wouldn't spend 10 minutes combing the vegetation for the spider using the video I recorded of it as reference, rookie mistake. She's quite large, must've eaten very recently. I will be offering her water with a qtip and house her in a plastic container with a hole on the lid with wheat bran so she has somewhere soft to lay in the dark so she has a chance to recover. I have the videos of me finding her being dragged and showing she's paralysed. If anyone wants the YouTube channel tell me. IMG20250322174119.jpg
 
Tentacle Toast

Tentacle Toast

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There was a guy that posted his story on here a while back....he, along with his kids, nursed the thing back to health over some time by carefully feeding it water & waxworm mash (if I'm remembering correctly). Since it was paralyzed, they staged it for photos...it was a wild story, I wonder if I can find it, hold on..
 
Tentacle Toast

Tentacle Toast

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HahahA, yeah, here ya go....he was rather thorough with his accounting & interventions. Outstanding patience & dedication to boot...father of the year material, in my book:
https://arachnoboards.com/thread/rehabbing-paralyzed-tarantula.365646/#post-3395938

I don't know how to link it, copy/paste the above, & it'll take you there. Well worth the read.
 
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