#wasp #tarantula hawk #sting
The world of insects is a place of horrors, and few creatures are more frightening than giant spiders. However, something more terrifying hunts them. Tarantula Hawks are giant wasps that are parasitoids of them. Armed with a painful sting, they paralyze spiders before laying their eggs on them. The larvae burrow into the spider, and then like the movie Alien, they burst out after a few months. In this video I filmed one of these wasps take down a large wolf spider (probably the highly venomous wandering spiders) in a Costa Rican cloud forest.
Source
"The wasp that kills tarantulas". BBC Earth. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
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