Jumping Spider Paralyzed by Wasp; Possible Recovery?

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coolnweird said:
Hello again! I first want to say that I absolutely understand both sides of this discussion, and I've wondered many times over the past weeks whether I should have let nature take its course. However, what's done is done, and now I just want to give this little guy the best care I can before eventually returning him to the wild.

Now for the good news! After many days of careful watering and using a pipette to dispense a small droplet directly between the chelicerae, I saw movement this morning. The spider had recovered a small amount of mobility in its backmost two legs and its palps! I can only hope that this is the beginning of this little one's recovery. I will keep this thread updated!
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Very lucky, I'm kinda surprised. Hopefully it recovers full mobility.
 
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Offered another small droplet this morning and the spider's mobility has definitely increased! All legs are twitching now, and it can move itself short distances.

I can't tell you how surprised I am by this recovery, I was truly beginning to think it wasn't going to recover, or had already died.
 
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coolnweird said:
Offered another small droplet this morning and the spider's mobility has definitely increased! All legs are twitching now, and it can move itself short distances.

I can't tell you how surprised I am by this recovery, I was truly beginning to think it wasn't going to recover, or had already died.
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Nice, this wasp usually sting multiple Times and circle around it's prey. Whenever i observe this in nature, the spider is fully paralized and there never really is anything near a fight. Then they take the prey to a safe spot to eat it.

Who would've tought it's just good at imobilizing. Wish your Spider all the best!
 
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Hey there cool, I hope the the little guy recovers.
You've gone above and beyond the call of duty.

Around here, we have small black wasps that will take down a full size wolf spider that is five to ten times their size.
I think they inject eggs inside.
We have Mud daubers(a type of wasp) that paralyze crab spiders only and insert them in their nests for their offspring.
It's nature. I do intervene when possible, but it happens and it's brutal.

I love my jumping spiders. We call them "fly" spiders.
 
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Bubba Q said:
Hey there cool, I hope the the little guy recovers.
You've gone above and beyond the call of duty.

Around here, we have small black wasps that will take down a full size wolf spider that is five to ten times their size.
I think they inject eggs inside.
We have Mud daubers(a type of wasp) that paralyze crab spiders only and insert them in their nests for their offspring.
It's nature. I do intervene when possible, but it happens and it's brutal.

I love my jumping spiders. We call them "fly" spiders.
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Funny you mention crab spiders, I found a small brown crab spider of a species I had never seen before on a railing of my wood fence, it was completely paralyzed, but it was not in a death curl and looked alive until I gently prodded it. I went back everyday for 6 days to check on this immobile crab spider, and every day it was in the same place. I decided a wasp must have attacked it then abandoned it for whatever reason. I wasn't in the position to nurse a spider back to life, so I made the decision to smash it and put it out of its misery. It popped like a real live, fat spider would, not dessicated or dead so I'm pretty certain it was dropped by a wasp.
 
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