Just in case you missed the detail, here’s wasp egg freshly laid and affixed to paralysed spider’s back. Normally this scene would be hidden away inside the mud comb that mother mud-wasp had built and sealed. [Scale: the spider's only about 1 cm (half an inch) long - excluding legs].
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