Just watched a special on this wasp. They lay ONE egg in each tarantula. They have to fight and paralyze each tarantula before depositing a single egg.
Has anyone ever considered checking if all these creatures are real? Imagine if Australians are just sick of tourists, so they just started making up ever crazier creatures to scare people off, like an episode of Scooby Doo.
Drop bears? “Tarantula hawk wasp”? I mean c’mon, they’re just throwing scary words together. What next, a Grizzly Shark Snake?
[Friendly reminder from an Australian that no one has died from a spider bite in this country since 1979.](https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/spider-facts/) Maybe it’s because we grow up respecting spiders here, but it really isn’t as dangerous as Reddit memers like to think it is.
New fear unlocked. Now I’m wide awake. No need for coffee when the fear of having one of these things dragging you away to lay eggs in your body now is hiding deep in my mind.
new fear I didn’t know I needed to have unlocked ✅
>They inhabit all continents, except for Antarctica – with many species common in the USA in the deserts of the southwest. The U.S. state of New Mexico choose a species of tarantula hawk (Pepsis grossa) to be its official state insect.
apparently they are only interested in fruit and nectar and can be handled without being stung, unless provoked…but will be painful AF if they do sting
I had one of these in my kitchen one time (middle of Sydney btw). I watched as it dragged a huntsman from the kitchen to the laundry where it had made it’s nest.
I think the only thing worse than a massive spider on your window is an even massive-er wasp dragging off its paralysed body
Oh is that all?
Just watched a special on this wasp. They lay ONE egg in each tarantula. They have to fight and paralyze each tarantula before depositing a single egg.
And this is why I’m never going to Australia. Thanks for the reminder.
This really might be the most australian picture ever.
Nightmare fuel!
Has anyone ever considered checking if all these creatures are real? Imagine if Australians are just sick of tourists, so they just started making up ever crazier creatures to scare people off, like an episode of Scooby Doo.
Drop bears? “Tarantula hawk wasp”? I mean c’mon, they’re just throwing scary words together. What next, a Grizzly Shark Snake?
Fuck all the way off
That title took turn for worse with every single word.
Don’t get me wrong, it gets cold in Canada but at least it ensures we don’t get anything remotely like this. Absolutely horrifying.
Nah
[Friendly reminder from an Australian that no one has died from a spider bite in this country since 1979.](https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/spider-facts/) Maybe it’s because we grow up respecting spiders here, but it really isn’t as dangerous as Reddit memers like to think it is.
New fear unlocked. Now I’m wide awake. No need for coffee when the fear of having one of these things dragging you away to lay eggs in your body now is hiding deep in my mind.
That’s just Davo and Shazza havin a laugh
Come on, man, I JUST opened Reddit.
Straya!
Nooo nooo noooo
Put it in a container with some air holes and send it express to Russia.
For non-Australian’s that Huntsman is about the size of a dinner plate, meaning that wasp is about 15cm long…
I love australian people and their accent. But never in my wildest dreams will I ever dare to visit there. Nope
On second thought I’d rather have the political posts
Not for me thanks x
Australia where nightmares have nightmares
If I never come across either of those, it’ll still be too soon.
tarantula hawk ✅
wasp ✅
Up to 11cm (4.3 in)✅
new fear I didn’t know I needed to have unlocked ✅
>They inhabit all continents, except for Antarctica – with many species common in the USA in the deserts of the southwest. The U.S. state of New Mexico choose a species of tarantula hawk (Pepsis grossa) to be its official state insect.
apparently they are only interested in fruit and nectar and can be handled without being stung, unless provoked…but will be painful AF if they do sting
https://factanimal.com/tarantula-hawk/
I do not need to see this shit at 8:14 a.m.
Damn cazadores
Australia has to be terrifying for someone who has arachnophobia or is just scared of bugs in general.
Is the spider alive when eggs are laid inside its body? I’m cringing at the thought
Hans, get the Flamenwehrfer, Schnell!
I just had one thought. What if that thing is hidden in my coffee?
One of those sentences which gets more horrifying with every word even tho you believe it can’t get any worse while reading it
I would not survive a day here.
OH, HEEEELLLLLLL NOOOOOO!!!!!!!
“Tarantula Hawk Wasp”
This sounds like a superhero name a 4 year old thought up.
Any spider named Hunts Man is a worry. Any wasp that eats a spider that hunts men is best only seen on your phone.
Australia was a mistake
jesus christ, Australia
Beedrill used Paralyze. Its super effective…
We have those in the states too. Scary fucks
I had one of these in my kitchen one time (middle of Sydney btw). I watched as it dragged a huntsman from the kitchen to the laundry where it had made it’s nest.
thats a big fucking wasp
Yea, that’s a nope for me.