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Trapped Wasp

Cindy and I were sitting on our front porch the other night, enjoying the evening light.  I looked up at the eaves of the roof over the porch and noticed five wasps that seemed to be frozen in mid-flight.

I couldn't resist taking a closer look and discovered that some enterprising spider had constructed a web right in front of the wasps' nest and had trapped them in flight as they were either entering or leaving the nest.

It was getting too dark to get a picture of it that evening, and by the time I remembered it the next day, all but one of the wasps were gone.

I guess that's one way to get rid of the wasps, just contract it out to the spiders.