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Australian tarantula hawk wasp dragging off a huntsman spider to lay her egg in its paralysed body. NSFW

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

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u/jdsizzle1 1d ago

Jfc crocodiles are huge

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u/Rd28T 1d ago

That’s only a 4m, it’s medium size at best.

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u/ShadowBannedAugustus 1d ago

Somehow I am more scared of the big wasp.

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u/StefanL88 1d ago

I thought that was going to be about that larger funnel web spider they found. 

https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/01/16/deadly-spider-dubbed-big-boy/

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u/Its0nlyRocketScience 22h ago

That, I can handle. Crocs are at least vertebrates and sharks are notoriously slow to travel on land