Re: black widows & wasps

**"* F* L* J* <l*@bellsouth.net>**

On 6/23/2012 2:53 AM, Tom wrote:
> I don't know what that wasp is either, but we have either the same wasp here
> in California, or one that's closely related....and all it eats is spiders,
> any kind of spider. I've been seeing these wasps in the garden again this
> summer, and have seen them kill large spiders. They are uncommonly strong
> too, and can carry off a spider that looks to weigh more than they do.
>    Of course wasps killing spiders in nothing new...out in the desert I often
> see tarantula hawk wasps....black and orange and huge....and they make their
> living killing tarantulas.

Great information.

>    On a side note...many lizards will eat spiders, including black widows. In
> particular good at getting into the sort of spots that black widows like are
> alligator lizards, and all species of skinks. Some lizards also eat
> scorpions.

This is especially good news. I have seen more and more skinks over the 
past 4 years at my place. This year there is a bumper crop. Toads and 
frogs also; hope they don't dine on skinks. I hear that enoles will 
outcompete skinks.

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