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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Aug 17, 2020

What is this color coordinated character?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 17, 2020

It's a wasp in the family Pompilidae known as a tarantula hawk, The females hunt down and paralyze tarantulas with their sting, and then drag the spider back to its burrow and lays her egg on it. When the larva hatches, it feeds on the still living tarantula, For more details, see https://www.thespruce.com/the-tarantula-eating-wasp-2656513

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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Aug 17, 2020

Thank you. That had crossed my mind but I'd never seen one at night or so close. I had an employee who was far more fearful of the sting of one of those than the local scorpions. They rank way up there on the sting index. I have seen it dragging it's prey to the hole. Lucky for me they are docile. It banged into me as it flew about never becoming aggressive.

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