You Won't Believe WHAT'S Inside a Potter Wasp's Nest!
There's almost certainly an unassuming lump of dried clay on your home—on the porch, in the garage, or under the shed. Most people scrape it off without a second thought. And they shouldn't. It's the clay nest of a potter wasp, and what's hidden inside is something you'll never forget.
In this video about insects and the wonders of nature, you'll learn how a solitary potter wasp, also known as a mud wasp, builds a nest all alone and molds it from clay drop by drop, like a true potter. But the most astonishing thing is what it fills its clay nest with. This wasp hunts spiders: it stalks them, paralyzes them with a precise sting, and fills the nest with living, immobilized bodies. This is how the paralyzed spiders appear in the nest—a living larva, prepared for the future wasp larva.
Among its prey is a special trophy: the black widow. That same venomous spider with the red hourglass-shaped mark on its abdomen is one of the most dangerous spiders around humans. It turns out that the mud wasp is a natural predator of the most dangerous spiders near your home, and the "wasp and spider" relationship here works quite differently than you might think.
You'll see how a wasp builds a nest and how it molds its tube out of clay, how wasps catch spiders and why they paralyze them, why spiders remain alive in the nest, how a wasp larva develops, and why this clay nest should never be knocked off the wall.
Watch to the end, and you'll never look at this lump of clay the same way again.
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