Spider Wasps?!

[Sparkky]

Evening all,
Earlier this evening, while I had my chicks out 'in the wild', I noticed a spider wasp guarding a spider it was laying eggs in. One of my chicks ventured too close and the wasp promptly flew after the chick but didn't actually get the chick. Needless to say, I gathered everyone up for the night, just in case.
Does this large spider catching wasp pose a threat to my fluff butts? They're about 3 weeks old.
Thanks
P.S. I love this site.

 

[Kazfam]

A spider wasp will drag the spider away to its nest - in the ground - and lay its eggs on it there.
So, I would think the spider wasp will move along to its abode.
I would not let the chicks get stung - they are most likely too little to handle it. As they age chickens tend to avoid stinging insects.

From Wikipedia:
A female spider wasp will search the ground and tree trunks for a spider, and upon finding one, will sting it, paralyzing the spider. Once the spider is paralyzed, the female wasp will make a burrow or take the spider to a previously made burrow. She will lay one single egg on the abdomen of the spider using her ovipositor, and then enclose the spider in the burrow.

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Female spider wasps look dangerous and do have a powerful, sting but they are not aggressive towards people and can be safely ignored.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

A spider wasp will drag the spider away to its nest - in the ground - and lay its eggs on it there.
So, I would think the spider wasp will move along to its abode.
I would not let the chicks get stung - they are most likely too little to handle it. As they age chickens tend to avoid stinging insects.

From Wikipedia:
A female spider wasp will search the ground and tree trunks for a spider, and upon finding one, will sting it, paralyzing the spider. Once the spider is paralyzed, the female wasp will make a burrow or take the spider to a previously made burrow. She will lay one single egg on the abdomen of the spider using her ovipositor, and then enclose the spider in the burrow.

AND

Female spider wasps look dangerous and do have a powerful, sting but they are not aggressive towards people and can be safely ignored.

I agree that spider hunting wasps are not much of a danger to chicks. They tend to sting only in the course of prey capture. These kinds of wasps are solitary so do not defend their captured and paralyzed spiders cached at the burrow or mud casings like social wasps defending their nests.

 

[Sparkky]

Thanks.
I was afraid of it guarding it's den somewhere, not knowing where and having it kill my chicks like angry bees can do. I don't want them stung by anything, much less something that hunts these big huge spiders.