Young Waspie’s grown somewhat. Seen here 8 days after the egg was first photographed at a mere few millimetres long, it’s grown into this huge 1 cm (half inch) long larva. It’s busy munching (or slurping?) on some paralysed spiders that mum’s left for it.
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