Posted on 01/10/2017 9:04:27 AM PST by C19fan
Most living creatures make themselves scarce upon seeing a huntsman spider.
But not the spider wasp.
It kills them and uses them as a giant meal for its larvae – and one of the insects has been caught on camera dragging one of the arachnids around a kitchen.
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Kill or be killed.
Sort of like ISIS.
I’m not sure that horrifying is the word I would use.
Nature is brutal and utterly without compassion.
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“The spider wasp is not aggressive, but is capable of inflicting a very painful sting if provoked.” - I hope to have the same reputation.
The Brits had it right in the beginning to make it a penal colony.
Go wasp!
Reminds me of the Cicada-Killer wasps we have down here in Texas. They look like huge yellow-jackets and can be almost 2 inches in length. But they don’t hurt humans.
There is vermin and there is Australian vermin.
They do overdo it a bit, don’t they?
What is it about Australia, that it got such quantity and variety of strange, nasty beasties? Those funnel web spiders alone give me the willies.
I’m not sure that horrifying is the word I would use.
Now, if it had been as my sleep deprived brain first read it... as a human spider... that would have been horrifying.
We’ve got Japanese Hornets here, their sting is reputed to feel like a nail gun. When one gets in the house, you can sort of feel the vibration from their wings, it’s vaguely like a helicopter in the distance. Their exoskeleton is pretty hard, swatting them just pisses them off. Their saving grace is, they’re not usually aggressive toward humans and they eat wasps.
The “horrifying” part isn’t that it kills the spider, it DOESN’T! It paralyzes it and lays the egg with the larvae being able to feed on living, unspoiling, flesh!
The saddest thing about spiders is that they don’t have little faces so you can see the look of shock and outrage as they are sucked up into the vacuum cleaner.
Because these wasps do neurosurgery on other insects. And they say it is incredibly advanced neurosurgery.
LOL
Do they kill stink-bugs?
Why is it horrifying?
***It kills them and uses them as a giant meal for its larvae***
Strange. I was taught the wasp paralyzes the spider so the larvae can have a live meal over time.
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