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The Tarantula Hawk Wasp: Painfully Polite Predator This giant wasp delivers one of the most painful stings on Earth — not deadly, just scream-worthy. Its main target? The tarantula! It paralyzes the spider with a precise sting — no escape! Then it lays an egg on the still-alive spider, and the larva slowly eats it from the inside. Despite the horror, males are surprisingly gentle — they chill on flowers sipping nectar. A ruthless assassin in the wild, a peaceful monk in the garden. #wasps #asian

Tarantula hawks are a breed of spider wasps who stalk tarantulas, with the goal of laying their eggs inside of them. Their sting is the second most painful in the world, followed only by the bullet ant. So it makes perfect sense that the cinematographer of our new documentary 'The Pray' (named after one of its subjects, the praying mantis) would voluntarily have a close encounter with one, right? An uncensored look at the glamorous life of a filmmaker! 'The Pray' is now streaming at http://bit.l

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