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I was watching videos of pepsis attacking different kinds of spiders on youtube and it occurred to me that all the spider victims looked to be adult females or close to being adult. will a wasp ignore a spider unless it's at a certain size or greater or even a male? From what I understand the point of parasitizing the arachnids in the first place is not to feed oneself but to feed the carnivorous offspring while the adults feed on nectar. So I'm thinking maybe attacking a smaller spider result in a starving wasp larva. I'm just curious about this and maybe someone here has some info they can share or thoughts?
-JohnD.
-JohnD.