I've been keeping a subadult female H. carolinensis for about two months, since I found her outside as the weather started to get chilly. She burrows, so I don't see her much, and she used to come out to eat at night until about two weeks ago. I assumed she was about to molt to adulthood and let her be.
I shone a flashlight in underneath her container just to check if she was still alive, and it looks like she is still mobile and not paralyzed, but she's got a crazy grub-of-doom hitching a ride a la this poor Leucauge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aHOnyXIOI
I'm assuming it's a wasp. WhaddoIdo? Dig her up and try to get the thing off? Let nature take its course? Panic and flail about? Any advice is much appreciated...
I shone a flashlight in underneath her container just to check if she was still alive, and it looks like she is still mobile and not paralyzed, but she's got a crazy grub-of-doom hitching a ride a la this poor Leucauge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aHOnyXIOI
I'm assuming it's a wasp. WhaddoIdo? Dig her up and try to get the thing off? Let nature take its course? Panic and flail about? Any advice is much appreciated...