What is a tarantula hawk?

Answer 1

Tarantula hawk wasps are so called as the female requires a tarantula spider in which to lay her eggs and serve as a host. They do not have many natural predators, although the roadrunner and other such birds will eat them.

Answer 2

It is a predatory insect. In simple terms, when it is ready to lay its eggs, it actively hunts tarantulas. Once found, it paralyses the spider with a venomous bite. The immobilised spider is dragged to an underground burrow, and an egg is laid on it. When the grub hatches, it eats the (still living) spider, before pupating into an adult.

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Answer 3

The "tarantula hawk" is any of several species of very large wasps in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis, so-named because they prey on large tarantula Spiders by laying their eggs inside the spider's body, parasitically.

It is the state insect of New Mexico.

Answer 4

First, an adult Tarantula Hawk will go hunting for a Tarantula in it's burrow.

Once it finds the burrow, it will drag the Tarantula out of it's burrow and inject a paralyzing venom into it. When the Tarantula is paralyzed, it will be taken into burrow made by the wasp and a single egg will be laid on the Tarantula. The wasp will leave. When the egg hatches, the larvae will feed on the living Tarantula. The larvae will eventually enter the inside of the Tarantula, consuming it from the inside out. While it does this, it has to avoid any major organs in the Tarantula so that it's food doesn't die. The Tarantula Hawk will become an adult (after the pupa stage) and leave. That is the cycle for the Tarantula Hawk.

Answer 5

A tarantula hawk wasp is a spider wasp that eats tarantulas. Their stinger is considered the second worst of any insect. They have long legs to struggle with their victims.

Answer 6

they are very good at flying and they are good at catching their pray.

Answer 7

Yes. it is the second most painful sting in the world. The bullet ant is the first most painful sting in the world.

Answer 8

they live in deserts.