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Monday, 21 July 2014
Murder in Montpelier!
At the station this morning I watched a Spider-hunting Wasp (Pompilidae) killing a Crab Spider Misumena vatia then spending several minutes biting at the spider's spinneret. It has been suggested to me that the wasp is severing the silk that anchors the spider to the leaf and this sounds very plausible. Also at the station were several Harvestmen again. Seven or eight Swifts were seen and a Coal Tit was singing nearby.
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