Just saw our first tarantula hawk of the season, I know they just ignore us but damn if that things is not scary looking. Here's a picture of a nest that we found last year. The wasp paralized the tarantula and takes it back into the tarantula's nest, deposited it's eggs on the tarantula and then the wasp larvae eat the tarantula turn into a wasp and fly away...
#grownostr #bugs #southwestliving #creepy
Ack but interesting! We have cicada killers here which look like ginormous wasps. They also want nothing to do with us and only want to eat cicadas but still catches me off guard when I see one flying around.
They're just creepy! I had to look up a cicada killer!
Got a picture of it in our compost.
Wow, that's pretty crazy! Thanks for the info, have a great night.
😳 Glad to live in the cold white north.
See we're a good compromise, we only see them half the year vs the rest of Arizona that has them year round and we don't get below 0 during the winter and minimal snow. And still close enough to Phoenix to get fresh citrus in January. Win-win!
