Jessica Arachnid

Tarantula hawk!! If you don’t know about these lovely creatures yet, check this out! Females have the ability to sting, paralyze, and drag a full-sized tarantula back to her burrow. She will then lay a single egg on that tarantula. Once the egg has hatched, the larva will eat through the insides of the tarantula… avoiding vital organs to keep it alive as long as possible. 😳

This specific specimen was sent to me already dead to pin for a taxidermy project.

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