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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 10:11 PM
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Default Pepsis wasp is no joke

When you watch this video keep in mind that this is a wasp that is dragging a dead tarantula through the grass.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...09524599325123

I would not want to piss one of these wasps off
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 10:18 PM
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fawk that. that wasp is the size of a dragonfly
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 10:20 PM
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3 inches from front to back from what I hear
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 10:47 PM
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Are those like the ones in Japan?
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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 11:51 PM
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:noes: that thing is huge. you'd have a better chance killing it with a bullet than a fly swatter h:
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 05:25 AM
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those are the wasp's that live in the ground not in hives.? i believe.
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 06:12 AM
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Wu-Tang :crazyr:
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 06:20 AM
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That's crazy. Fuck Raid, you need napalm.
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 08:42 AM
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where the fuck is that place???? a tarantula AND a fucking monster wasp beast that kills it too AND a fool to get close to videotape it?!
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Old Apr 10, 2007 | 08:49 AM
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Those are Tarantula Hawks, you see them during the summers in AZ, not uncommon seeing those fuggers flying around with a Tarantula.

Those things scare me h:

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Basically, they take the spider back to the burrow, lay an egg, then the egg hatches and eats the spider. Neat part is that the spider is alive this entire time h:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk_wasp
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