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#1 Robert M

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 08:33 AM

I was out feeding hay to our goats Wednesday when I noticed this guy flying around. I got to see him nail the tarantula he drug out from under the hay pile. Only took him a second, the tarantula only had time to get his arms in the air and it was all over. He then proceeded to drag the tarantula across the yard so I ran and got the camera to take a few shots. He pulled the tarantula over 150 feet and carried it up an 18" wall before I left it alone to continue the circle of life.

To get an idea of the size of the Wasp and spider the picture where it is dragging the wasp across the hose the hose is bigger than 1" across and the picture of it on the cinder block there is about 6 to 61/2" of the cinder block showing

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#2 Kirk Dietrich

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 08:57 AM

Wicked bro! That's thinking on your toes to run back and get the camera.

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 09:04 AM

I have a friend in Nevada that has told me stories about tarantula hawks . He said you don't want to get stung by one ,but also you would probably have to force the issue to get stung as they have no interest in interacting with humans.Cool photos Robert . Thanks for posting them.
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#4 ChuckingFluff

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 10:15 AM

You have real big spiders dude.

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#5 DevinKaradeema

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 10:46 AM

Now if you throw a texas size cackaroach in the mix you'll have a mini circus

The spider eating wasp and the unkillable bug together in the center ring... who dies first hahaha

i have a wild imagination man sorry, made me laugh though cool wasp though

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#6 Robert M

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 11:29 AM

QUOTE (Fred H. @ Jun 18 2010, 09:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

After I got done taking the pictures it got pretty aggressive and chased my wife off. I guess it had had enough. Damn paparazzi!

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 11:38 AM

QUOTE (ChuckingFluff @ Jun 18 2010, 10:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You have real big spiders dude.

This year especially, I've seen probably 15-20 of them typically I only see 1-2 a year. Must have had a population explosion last year during the drought and all the rain is driving them up hill.
At least scorpions haven't been a major problem this year. (knock wood)

I'm really curious how the wasp knew the tarantula was under the hay bale it was a good 6" into the bale to where the sucker had set up shop and it was on the opposite end from where I was pulling hay from.

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Posted 18 June 2010 - 12:19 PM

There's no way I could get the wife within 1000 mile of Texas if she saw that. We were at a mall where they had snakes and stuff and you could hold a tarantula if you wanted to. She ended up with a scorpion in her hand but wouldn't get near the tarantula. I offered her $100 to hold it but it was no go. Come to think of it I think she still went into my wallet and took the $100.