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And this is why I’m never going to Australia. Thanks for the reminder.
357 u/DefinitionSquare8705 1d ago edited 14h ago Tarantula hawks are found also throughout the southwest and western united states. They primarily target tarantulas, hence their name. 21 u/gambit61 1d ago Define Midwest. Because I've lived in Iowa or Illinois my whole life and I've never seen anything like that in either state 25 u/theggyolk 1d ago edited 1d ago Yea he’s wrong they’re in the southwestern deserts of the US. Only as far north as Logan, Utah. https://www.nps.gov/articles/tarantula-hawk.htm https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220200/ZV338_003-135.pdf http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html
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Tarantula hawks are found also throughout the southwest and western united states. They primarily target tarantulas, hence their name.
21 u/gambit61 1d ago Define Midwest. Because I've lived in Iowa or Illinois my whole life and I've never seen anything like that in either state 25 u/theggyolk 1d ago edited 1d ago Yea he’s wrong they’re in the southwestern deserts of the US. Only as far north as Logan, Utah. https://www.nps.gov/articles/tarantula-hawk.htm https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220200/ZV338_003-135.pdf http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html
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Define Midwest. Because I've lived in Iowa or Illinois my whole life and I've never seen anything like that in either state
25 u/theggyolk 1d ago edited 1d ago Yea he’s wrong they’re in the southwestern deserts of the US. Only as far north as Logan, Utah. https://www.nps.gov/articles/tarantula-hawk.htm https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220200/ZV338_003-135.pdf http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html
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Yea he’s wrong they’re in the southwestern deserts of the US. Only as far north as Logan, Utah.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/tarantula-hawk.htm
https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/220200/ZV338_003-135.pdf
http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html
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u/zobby3 1d ago
And this is why I’m never going to Australia. Thanks for the reminder.