The Wasp Spider
Walking around Bovey Heath we spot a Wasp Spider. It’s a fantastic specimen. Just look at it:
![Wasp Spider - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Wasp-Spider-The-Hall-of-Einar-4252-725x544.jpg)
I manage to get between its web and the foliage with my thin phone and get a shot.
I’ve seen one before, in Italy:
They’ve only been in the UK since 1922.
I’m just as excited seeing one this time as I was last.
Then we spot the egg sac in the gorse bush at the edge of the web:
![Wasp Spider - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Wasp-Spider-The-Hall-of-Einar-4245-725x408.jpg)
It’s a stunning woven flask, much bigger than she is, held in a tangle of threads.
![Wasp Spider - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Wasp-Spider-Egg-Sac-The-Hall-of-Einar-4244-725x483.jpg)
What an incredible structure to weave. I hope there will be many more Wasp Spiders here next year.
Here’s illustrator Jo Brown behind the spider:
![Wasp Spider - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Wasp-Spider-The-Hall-of-Einar-4255-725x725.jpg)
Maybe it’ll end up in volume 2 of her nature journal, Secrets of a Devon Wood?