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Tarantula hawk

tribe: Pepsini

Description:

This enormous insect belongs to the order of hymenoptera (which includes wasps and ants). it main pray is tarantula and it puts its eggs on a paralyzed tarantula which will be eaten alive by the younglings of tarantula hawk that rais inside the body of the tarantula

Habitat:

amazonian forest

Notes:

Despite having wings, this wasp is so big and heavy that it could not fly over the pit fall

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FredericoMartins
Spotted by
FredericoMartins

Presidente Figueiredo, AM, Brazil

Spotted on Jul 7, 2014
Submitted on Mar 13, 2015

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