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Anonymous
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Wow, I was lucky. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_wasp
"...Their long legs end with hooked claws for grappling with their victims. The stinger of a female tarantula hawk can be up to 1/3 inch (7 mm) long, and delivers a sting which is rated amongst the most painful in the insect world."
This sounds like what I witnessed:
"...They capture, sting, and paralyze the spider. Next they either drag the spider back into her own burrow or transport their prey to a specially prepared nest where a single egg is laid on the spiders body, and the entrance is covered. The wasp larva, upon hatching, begins to suck the juices from the still-living spider. After the larva grows a bit, the spider dies and the larva plunges into the spider's body and feeds, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep it fresh. The adult wasp emerges from the nest to continue the life cycle."
In the wikipedia article, there is a picture of a wasp digging a hole... I wondered what all those holes in the trail were from.
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