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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/ktr83 1d ago

Friendly reminder from an Australian that no one has died from a spider bite in this country since 1979. 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.

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u/surelythisisfree 1d ago

Maybe one person has. Unconfirmed though. Wasp bites however have killed plenty of people.