Tag: tarantula hawk wasp
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YouTube – Nature Videos and Synthesizers
A few years back, I caught some footage of a tarantula hawk wasp harassing a large desert tarantula. The wasps use paralyzed spiders as hosts for their larval young, which feed on the still-living spiders, carefully devouring around essential organs what would kill their arachnid hosts. Creepy stuff. In this video, the spider gets away.…