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Tarantula Hawk

 

 

Like all members of this genus, they require a spider to serve as host for their larvae, and in the case of the local species, tarantulas are the preferred nursery.

 

A female wasp finds a tarantula by smell. Generally, she scampers across the ground to locate a burrow. She will enter the burrow and expel the spider, then attack it. She may also encounter a male tarantula during his search for a mate. In an attack, the wasp uses her antennae to probe the spider, which may raise its front legs and bare its fangs. (A tarantula does not always counterattack.) She then attempts to sting the spider. She might seize the spider by a leg, flip it over on its back and sting it, or she may approach from the side to deliver a sting. Once stung, the tarantula becomes paralyzed within seconds. The condition will last for the remainder of its life. The wasp may drink the body fluids oozing from the spider?s wounds or from its mouth to replenish nutrients and water she used during the attack.

 

If the wasp expelled her victim, she will drag it back into its own burrow, now a burial vault, lay a single egg on the spider?s abdomen, then seal the chamber. If the wasp succeeds in stinging a male tarantula on a mating hunt, she will excavate a burrow, drag the paralyzed spider inside, lay her single egg, and seal the chamber.

 

Once the egg hatches, the tiny grub, initially connected to the spider by the tip of its tail, bends over, attaches its head and begins to suck. It continues sucking until its final moult. It then rips open the spider's abdomen, thrusts its head and part of the thorax inside, and "feeds ravenously," as one entomologist described it. As one might hope, even for a spider, the tarantula at this point is finally dead.

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Originally posted by When

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the packs come with little cards about animals

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haha that wood make me wanna smoke

 

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and yes, that rabbit is mest up...

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i had one of these killaz earlier this year... they are the dope shit yo

 

im getting a new one hooked up.....they are fucken beasts, they charge sometimes....strong little tough cunts.... vicious as hell....love em

 

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DO NOT FUCK WITH WOMBATS>>>>>THEY HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO TAKE MULTIPLE BULLETS AND STILL COME AT YOU

 

 

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