Badumna insignis

Black House Spider at Black Range, NSW

Badumna insignis at Black Range, NSW - 11 Sep 2020 03:30 PM
Badumna insignis at Black Range, NSW - 11 Sep 2020 03:30 PM
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Badumna insignis 18 Oct 2020 KimPullen
Badumna insignis 12 Sep 2020 Harrisi
Unverified 11 Sep 2020 StephH

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This small living spider has made its web on the mud nest made by a wasp under our birdbath. You can see a dead or paralysed grey spider (possibly a small wolf spider) still partly enclosed in the clay on the right in the first pic. It's a case of a spider using the nest of a wasp who, in turn, used other spiders as food for its growing young.

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StephH wrote:
   12 Sep 2020
Thanks Harrisi. Yes, that looks like the living spider In the photo.

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