Epic!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[email protected]>
To: "Adam Hupe" <[email protected]>; "Richard Montgomery"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Creepy crawlies!
It's the New Mexico State Insect:
http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/New_Mexico/Tarantula_hawk_wasp.html
Not exactly a warm and welcoming symbol.
Not complaining. I live in Illinois and our
State Fossil is the equally attractive Tully Monster:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/tullys-mystery-monster/
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Montgomery" <[email protected]>
To: "Adam Hupe" <[email protected]>; "Adam"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Creepy crawlies!
Adam and List, (nice off-topic desert fun)...
YES!! While collecting (insects) at Paramid Lake years ago, I nabbed a
Pompillidae (tarantula hawk) who's body-length was 2 inches+, and it
actually looked like a bird flying around....and it stung me.
Pain wasn't even the word for it. I remember that is felt like an
electric shock, and literally knocked my off my feet. Oddly, that's all
I remember. It now lives somewhere in the UC Davis Bohart Museum.
They literally carry tarantulas away to provision the nest for young-uns.
See you all in Tucson!
Richard Montgomery
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Hupe" <[email protected]>
To: "Adam" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Creepy crawlies!
I have been bitten (more like chewed on) by Wind Scorpion on my large toe
when I feel asleep on my back porch. Left a distinctive scar that only a
creature with two independent sets of jaws can deliver. Surprisingly, it
wasn't as painful as being stung by bark scorpion which feels like
somebody is burning you with a hot coal for hours. They are afraid of
nothing and will attack anything that moves. I had one chasing me around
my back patio. It moved so quickly that I could not tell what it was
until I trapped it.
You think Sun Spiders and Wind Scorpions are bad. On a one to ten scale,
a sting from a Tarantula Hawk rates a ten as far as pain goes while a bee
sting only rares a one or two and a scorpion sting rates a three or four.
I can only imagine one of these things flying through the air carrying a
giant tarantula spider payload. If you startle it while it is carrying
the alive spider back to its nest, it is liable to drop it on you in mid
flight.
http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2010/07/16/tarantula-hawks-deliver-the-big-sting/
I have only seen two of these. One landed on my sandal while I was
wearing it and the other I smashed onto the the side of my head when it
buzzed me under a streetlamp. What a mess! I identified it through the
giant red wings that I combed out of my hair. Thankfully I was not stung
by either one. A sting from one of these will make the strongest man curl
up in the fetal position and cry "mama".
Be Careful,
Adam
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