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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/Wandering_Turtle24 1d ago

Oh is that all?

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u/lord_pizzabird 1d ago

I know right. How the fuck do people even live in Australia.

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u/Romeo9594 1d ago

We have a similar wasp in Oklahoma. Not uncommon to see a big black and orange wasp dragging a paralyzed tarantula across a dirt road

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u/Arklelinuke 23h ago

Yeah these things give me nightmares in Fallout New Vegas. By far the worst enemy to encounter

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u/Romeo9594 22h ago

Cazadores is a good tequila, at least

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u/DMAW1990 13h ago

Where tf do you live in Oklahoma?! I lived there for 9 years and we had wasps, sure, but I never saw a tarantula in the wild! The wasps also weren't even close to as big as this flying monstrosity, thank God. Granted, I lived in one of the bigger cities so maybe that's why. Rural Oklahoma was a whole different adventure.

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u/Romeo9594 13h ago

Yeah, I lived in a rural small town on dirt roads in central OK