[Sharon]

Tarantula hawk wasps are species of spider wasps that seize tarantulas as food for their larvae.

They prefer female tarantulas because male tarantulas are typically emaciated from ignoring food while they search for females.

They seek females in their burrows, capturing, stinging and paralyzing the spider, dragging the prey back to their own burrow, or to a specially prepared nest with a covered entrance, where a single egg is laid upon the spider's body. When the larvae hatch it begins sucking the juices from the paralyzed, but still living spider. As it grows, the larvae plunges deeper into the spiders body, feeding voraciously while avoiding vital organs to keep the host fresh. Eventually, an adult Tarantula Hawk wasp emerges from the nest and the life cycle begins once again.

Tarantula hawk wasps rarely sting people as they are very docile however, if provoked they may sting. Their sting is among the most painful in the insect world

Related:
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...spiders-84058/
http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...nt-wasp-86041/

[Faline]

Awful little bastards
Trapped in your own body being fed on, pure torture

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by Kelly ↗

Awful little bastards
Trapped in your own body being fed on, pure torture

Isn't it? When I read that, I felt a shudder down my spine. As amazing as insects are, they suffer the most horrendous deaths. Fed on from inside, liquidised, young hatching out of them 'Alien' style, it's the stuff of horror films

[kellyhound]

As it grows, the larvae plunges deeper into the spiders body, feeding voraciously while avoiding vital organs to keep the host fresh.

clever and brutal at the same time

[Wendell]

Originally Posted by Kelly ↗

Awful little bastards
Trapped in your own body being fed on, pure torture

Yeah definitely. And it's not just these wasps. There's lots of different species of wasp that do these kind of things. They inject their eggs into other bugs and then feast on their innards. Nasty fuckers!

[knuggy]

that's a bad motherfucking wasp