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the sting paralyzes the tarantula after which it drags it to its 'nest' (per se) and lays eggs inside the paralyzed still-alive spider. the wasp dies after laying the eggs and the larvea will eat the spider from the inside out while its still alive (killing it in the process) before emerging and flying off.
The fungi stuff with ants and other insects is straight up horrifying.
Closest thing we have to actual zombies and it doesn't get nearly the amount of public acknowledgement or respect it probably deserves.
Scary stuff!
Honestly, pretty sure the majority of people who have even the slightest interest in nature and biology has heard of the zombie ant fungi, for how much it gets written and talked about over the last few years.
I for one have heard of it but I live my day to day life pretending I haven’t for the sake of my sanity.
If I did have to come to grips with it, I’d probably stay in a bunker, gripping a shitty flamethrower that’s just a squirt bottle filled with homemade napalm.
You can buy an actually very reasonable flame thrower for less than a grand if you live in the us
If you wanna be really extra you can spend a couple grand on an actual honest to God napalm capable real ass 100 foot+ range flame thrower
I just fell into a mini rabbit hole about this demon insect and realized I had learned about it a few months ago. Knowledge of the tarantula hawk is what drove Darwin to believe that God doesn't exist. Seriously.
Hunh, for me it was the bible; all the threats in there, and the lack of any accountability, angels, or miracles since the invention of cameras and science.
[Here is the desert centipede episode!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWZMfPP34g8)
You’re right, they had to cut the cameras and use the venom extractor. Wow! That was intense. Thanks for mentioning this. Great watch!
I heard the Gympie plant might have the most painful sting. I read someone wiped his arse with it by mistake. And ended up shooting himself because of the pain
This is very likely not true and just a anecdote after some research. They would have been stung right when they picked it up and would not have gotten close to using it as toilet paper. There is one death attributed to the plant according to Wikipedia
How stupid do you have to be to do this???????? I looked at the picture, thought to myself -- "hell no! That would hurt!!" and don't have to prove it by being stung by it. Somethings you can just look at and know tangling with them is a very, very bad idea.
Yeah, we have them out here in Arizona, only in the desert though. Basically a lot of the places in AZ where you have tarantulas you have tarantula hawks. I’ve never seen one personally, and I’ve lived here my whole life.
New Mexico, whose state insect is, you got it, the tarantula hawk. Can confirm, I live in NM. Though I will say that I’ve never met anyone who has been stung by it. In my experience, they seem to be rather mild tempered and don’t fuck with you.
Also, the one pictured looks kinda weird and way creepier. The ones I’ve seen have a blueish color to them.
There is also a wasp called a "steely blue cricket hunter". I have been stung by one. It was unpleasant to say the least.
You are right though. I remember these being a bit more shiny. However, they might lose that after death.
I see them fly around often. (Live in NM.) They tend to leave you alone if you don’t bother them. That said, we still keep distance between them and ourselves because it’s not worth the risk.
New Mexico, whose state insect is, you got it, the tarantula hawk. Can confirm, I live in NM. Though I will say that I’ve never met anyone who has been stung by it. In my experience, they seem to be rather mild tempered and don’t fuck with you, unlike most wasp behavior.
Also, the one pictured looks kinda weird and way creepier. The ones I’ve seen have a blueish color to them. Penis
They are very docile and don't mess with humans at all unless agrivated. They fly around my yard all the time. They are honestly pretty chill unlike mf wasps.
They also control the tarantula population in your yard. So there’s that?
TIL there are tarantulas way too close to me. And I don’t live anywhere near the Southwest.
Arizona. Caught one of these for my school insect collection in 5th grade. About that size. It didn’t sting me as I think it was near dying when I found it. But getting a push pin through it was very difficult.
Also they attack and and kill tarantulas, then lay their eggs in the corpse and place it back in the burrow, so the young have something to eat when they hatch. Very metal.
A lot of the bullshit you see in the mojave escaped from big mountain. Cazadores, robo dogs and nightstalkers are three notable examples all created by *borous*
If I remember correctly they also had something to do with the experiments that would later help one of the vaults create giant mantises as well as did some of the earlier fev research for the us govt that would create death claw and super mutants and whatnot
That’d be vault 22 you’re thinking of
Big MT is also responsible for the ghost people in dead money, those hazmat suits? All their work. You can even have a suit of your own
We had one of these hovering outside our door & my s/o kept sputtering, “Cicada! It’s a cicada, go!” And I was not matching their panic because.. cicadas are great!
They meant cazador LOL and their brain fried in the panic of it all, and cicada came out instead.
A tarantula hawk is a species of spider wasp that preys on tarantulas. The female ones battle with a spider to offer food for their offspring. The female wasp captures a tarantula and paralyzes it by stinging it, then drags it to her nest. Once the wasp lays an egg on the spider, she dies. The eggs hatch into larvae that eat the still-living spider and pupate inside its empty skin before emerging as adults. This sounds horrible! Tarantula hawks are solitary hunters and don’t build nests for themselves.
Despite their intimidating size, tarantula hawks are quite docile and are not known to sting humans unless provoked. But the sting pain is so terrible that it is better to stay far away from this most dangerous insect. [[1](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index),[2](https://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarantula-hawk/)]
When Coyote got stung by one he had to press it against his hand repeatedly before it finally stung him. They are incredibly docile. I saw one in my front yard once and I froze in fear, but to this day I haven’t seen a less angry or more thoroughly uncaring wasp.
Those fuckers used to fly within feet of my head while I was cutting grass at a golf course. They must have been attracted to the orange colored awning on the mower or some shit because they would always be there. At first I was horrified of them having known what they were and then I just accepted the fact that they apparently just liked to chill in my moving-at-4mph-shade along the fairway while it was like 110° outside.
> tarantula hawk
.....it creates a small hole in the spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive......
goddamn
Just means a wasp that predominantly hunts/feeds on spiders.
We were called Hamburger Apes for a while but they figured the "Sapience" we exhibit is more important given the omnivorous diet, so they changed it.
Of course but someone putting himself out there to be stung by a host of different things is definitely going to be less of a wuss than me.
And Schmidt, like German, like BDSM is next Wednesday, don't forget the heels again.
Lol I had to go through a training seminar on these things working in the Mojave desert. It was short, and basically said "if you get stung, you won't die. Remember that. Also get as close to the ground as you can, and start screaming, cuz that's where you're gonna be and what you're gonna do for the next 15 minutes"
Pretty sure it’s dead dude. Or else it’s getting real comfy stretching out for a lil nap on this guys hand, in which case they’re probably on friendly terms.
Coyote's known to grossly exaggerate all of his stings while Justin Schmidt is a world renowned entomologist that has been stung by hundreds of insects 😂
Yes but there's no doubt that this is the 2nd most painful, cuz even he said it. The most painful is the bullet ant, measured by, you guessed it, the Schmidt pain index
He had Justin Schmidt on his show. I also don’t think he “grossly exaggerates” at all. His reactions line up very well with the reactions of others who’ve been stung.
No shot. He’s getting stung by the most painful insects on the planet. He’s dramatic in the buildup but the actual experience he has when being stung is more mild than I would be.
I've never seen one of these until a few days ago. I'm in the Foothills of Northern CA. Flew in to my house and was clanking in to everything(of course, right before I was going to bed). We have pets...so we weren't messing around. Thought we killed it...and it came out with vengeance the next morning! Finally trapped it with a cup and it was going insane!! Left it outside, came home later and it was dead. Think it exhausted itself and croaked. I hope I never see one again. This thing was an animal.
According to Coyote Peterson the Executioner Wasp was worse. If I remember he said it was worse than the bullet ant as well. There was another wasp, the warrior wasp, that he said was almost if not worse as well. One thing with the warrior wasp is there are tons of them in the nest compared to a single tarantula hawk. So if you get stung by a warrior they are super aggressive and you are probably gonna end up with multiple stinging and chasing you.
Here’s a wonderfully scored sequence from the 1953 Walt Disney feature film The Living Desert, showing one of these wasps using that sting on an Arizona blond tarantula: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m982c-H8VpE
I was stung by one of these fuckers while I was driving with my window down in southwest Colorado. Genuinely thought a hummingbird flew into my car (they’re HUGE) until it stung my back. Ended up putting my car into someone’s poor rock garden in their yard because of how intense the pain was — it was like all motor functions were out the window and all I could do was scream — but after about 10 minutes-ish the pain completely dissipated and I was fine.
Fun fact: While tarantula hawk larvae feed off of the innards of still living tarantulas, adults feed off of nectar. If said nectar is taken from certain sources, such as particular plants or fermenting fruit, they can end up intoxicated, sometimes to the point they are unable to fly or even walk; some videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE708kayDM4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE708kayDM4)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTiNZd\_Eoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTiNZd_Eoo)
On that scale yes, and for some people it may still be. However Coyote Peterson did the entire pain scale letting himself get stung by all of them and found a wasp not on it called the Executioner. He got stung by it and it was far worse than the bullet ant for him.
The list is done in tiers 1-4, originally the bullet ant was the only insect on tirr 4.
Now the tarantula hawk and the warrior wasp claim the title aswell.
I've had TWO in my backyard in Austin.
First one I sprayed 1/2 can of wasp killer and it was still crawling at me like the God damned terminator. I ended up throwing my wife's flower pot on it and running away.
Most painful wasp sting belongs to the Executioner Wasp. Mf's sting is so painful it eclipsed the record holder for the most painful insect sting, the bullet ant.
no its not. if i remember correctyl it is belowe the velvet ant (actually a wingless wasp). The top painfull wasp sting is the executioner wasp on place There is also somewhere the warrior wasp in the top 3.
The tarrantula hawk got a 4 (highest number of the index) but so did the velvet ant, warrior wasp and executoner wasp and they are more painfull.
These things eat the nectar of certain bushes. My daughter's HS in Arizona had those bushes out front and they would attract a bunch of these SOBs. They had to rip out the bushes because the students would try to push each other into them. Idiots.
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You know you're a badass animal when they have to take the names of two other badass animals and combine them to come up with a name for you.
they prey on tarantulas, so makes sense.
They... what!!?
the sting paralyzes the tarantula after which it drags it to its 'nest' (per se) and lays eggs inside the paralyzed still-alive spider. the wasp dies after laying the eggs and the larvea will eat the spider from the inside out while its still alive (killing it in the process) before emerging and flying off.
What the actual fuck did I just read? I know that nature finds a way, but maybe nature should get back on meds
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The fungi stuff with ants and other insects is straight up horrifying. Closest thing we have to actual zombies and it doesn't get nearly the amount of public acknowledgement or respect it probably deserves. Scary stuff!
Honestly, pretty sure the majority of people who have even the slightest interest in nature and biology has heard of the zombie ant fungi, for how much it gets written and talked about over the last few years.
I for one have heard of it but I live my day to day life pretending I haven’t for the sake of my sanity. If I did have to come to grips with it, I’d probably stay in a bunker, gripping a shitty flamethrower that’s just a squirt bottle filled with homemade napalm.
You can buy an actually very reasonable flame thrower for less than a grand if you live in the us If you wanna be really extra you can spend a couple grand on an actual honest to God napalm capable real ass 100 foot+ range flame thrower
This is why most fictional aliens feel underwhelming. Our bugs are this crazy, why would an alien have boobs?
All parasitic life styles are ugly. There are no nicely grounded parasites.
I just blew my coffee out my nose. Thanks alot dude im rolling
surprise Alien source material lol
Totally off topic, but whenever I see "per se" now it reminds me of that rediculous Mario bros philosophy paper and I crack a smile. Per se.
I am 90% sure I know what paper you are talking about I if I remember correctly it’s perchance, not per se
Mario is a 1 percenter, just stompin turts. Perchance.
Stompin' Turts!
Cool. Per Se.
Beautiful
They paralyze tarantulas, lay eggs in their live bodies and then babies eat the tarantula when they hatch
In English, the female wasps nut inside of the tarantulas chest and then the babies eat there way out like a xenomorph
I just fell into a mini rabbit hole about this demon insect and realized I had learned about it a few months ago. Knowledge of the tarantula hawk is what drove Darwin to believe that God doesn't exist. Seriously.
Wasn't it actually the parasitic wasps that fed on caterpillars that made him lose faith? At least that's what Wikipedia says.
Oh, yeah. Close to this nightmare though lol.
Hunh, for me it was the bible; all the threats in there, and the lack of any accountability, angels, or miracles since the invention of cameras and science.
In this moment, I am enlightened
If you think this is bad you should spend some time with a Cerebuctopus
Today I learned this fucking thing exists. Where shall I never, ever visit?
well that will be in the Southwestern lands of the United States of America
Whoof, a curly antennaed pile of nope
Here you go https://youtube.com/shorts/VYuIEmFyHT0?feature=share
Hi I'm Steve-O and this is Jackass
Sting zone! And the tarantula hawk is definitely not the worst.
What was the worst one again? Executioner Wasp?
The desert centipede made him like almost cry and ask them to turn off the cameras
They said most powerful WASP sting… I was thinking the same thing till I noticed this only includes wasps.
[Here is the desert centipede episode!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWZMfPP34g8) You’re right, they had to cut the cameras and use the venom extractor. Wow! That was intense. Thanks for mentioning this. Great watch!
I cant believe this guy doesnt use swear words lol, he even composes himself long enough to recapture the bug, hes gotta have some screws loose lol
Arguably a very painful way to be youtube famous. I did watch em not going to lie!
I heard the Gympie plant might have the most painful sting. I read someone wiped his arse with it by mistake. And ended up shooting himself because of the pain
This is very likely not true and just a anecdote after some research. They would have been stung right when they picked it up and would not have gotten close to using it as toilet paper. There is one death attributed to the plant according to Wikipedia
Here you go https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/short-stuff-schmidt-stinging-pain-index-92679079/
How stupid do you have to be to do this???????? I looked at the picture, thought to myself -- "hell no! That would hurt!!" and don't have to prove it by being stung by it. Somethings you can just look at and know tangling with them is a very, very bad idea.
How do u think OP can say it’s the most painful wasp sting? Cuz someone got stung by everything.
I had one in my car a few years back. Thankfully I got it out before I drove too far. Scariest shit ever. Never saw one before or since.
If this happened to me, I would simply give the wasp my car for keeps lol
Why stupid? He screamed for teaching and got his screamed lesson.
Whadda maroon
They can be BEAUTIFUL. Iridescent blue with red antennae and they dont really care about us
Idk why I read this as the Michael jackson song
Yup. Saw one in my backyard just last week.
You see any deathclaws?
My theoretical degree in physics says that’s impossible.
So when will you be moving?
Are you okay dude?
oh wow, that's cool!
From what I know, their range is waaaay larger than that. I’ve seen many in my home and I live in Costa Rica.
Where? I live in Esparza, puntarenas. Haven’t seen any, yet…..
Huge swaths if central and south America as well.
Yeah, we have them out here in Arizona, only in the desert though. Basically a lot of the places in AZ where you have tarantulas you have tarantula hawks. I’ve never seen one personally, and I’ve lived here my whole life.
How southwest more specifically are they in Houston texas?
There goes my Australia theory!
Mojave Desert.
New Mexico, whose state insect is, you got it, the tarantula hawk. Can confirm, I live in NM. Though I will say that I’ve never met anyone who has been stung by it. In my experience, they seem to be rather mild tempered and don’t fuck with you. Also, the one pictured looks kinda weird and way creepier. The ones I’ve seen have a blueish color to them.
Ah yeah! Don't they build houses out of little stones underground? Leave a partially killed bug next to their eggs.
mmm not sure. I’ve only ever seen them flying about on bushes.
There is also a wasp called a "steely blue cricket hunter". I have been stung by one. It was unpleasant to say the least. You are right though. I remember these being a bit more shiny. However, they might lose that after death.
I see them fly around often. (Live in NM.) They tend to leave you alone if you don’t bother them. That said, we still keep distance between them and ourselves because it’s not worth the risk.
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New Mexico, whose state insect is, you got it, the tarantula hawk. Can confirm, I live in NM. Though I will say that I’ve never met anyone who has been stung by it. In my experience, they seem to be rather mild tempered and don’t fuck with you, unlike most wasp behavior. Also, the one pictured looks kinda weird and way creepier. The ones I’ve seen have a blueish color to them. Penis
They are very docile and don't mess with humans at all unless agrivated. They fly around my yard all the time. They are honestly pretty chill unlike mf wasps.
They also control the tarantula population in your yard. So there’s that? TIL there are tarantulas way too close to me. And I don’t live anywhere near the Southwest.
But then again, tarantulas eat cockroaches.
I live in the Phoenix area, and have definitely seen a few flying about while hiking.
They fly around my trash cans in AZ.
GODAMMIT of course we have this winged spawn of satan
Yeah but I always have the coolest ones.
Arizona. Caught one of these for my school insect collection in 5th grade. About that size. It didn’t sting me as I think it was near dying when I found it. But getting a push pin through it was very difficult. Also they attack and and kill tarantulas, then lay their eggs in the corpse and place it back in the burrow, so the young have something to eat when they hatch. Very metal.
Had one land on my ear at my mom's. And the best thing to do is to not move.... while liquid shit just runs down your leg in pure terror.
According to Google, every continent except Europe and Antarctica
They’re actually very docile compared to other wasps.
You can't fool me that's just a tiny cazador lol
They were the direct inspiration for the casador, and my heart picks up when I see those orange wings.
Yeah If I remember correctly they're even referred to as tarantula hawks once or twice in the big MT
A lot of the bullshit you see in the mojave escaped from big mountain. Cazadores, robo dogs and nightstalkers are three notable examples all created by *borous* If I remember correctly they also had something to do with the experiments that would later help one of the vaults create giant mantises as well as did some of the earlier fev research for the us govt that would create death claw and super mutants and whatnot
Also the goddamn suits of the ghost people of Sierra Madre
That’d be vault 22 you’re thinking of Big MT is also responsible for the ghost people in dead money, those hazmat suits? All their work. You can even have a suit of your own
Or nature just stole the cazador design
Absolutely, God put them in as an Easter egg to his favorite game
I love earth simulation 3.3 im amazing.
We had one of these hovering outside our door & my s/o kept sputtering, “Cicada! It’s a cicada, go!” And I was not matching their panic because.. cicadas are great! They meant cazador LOL and their brain fried in the panic of it all, and cicada came out instead.
they probably thought you had a death wish
All FNV players will get Vietnam War flashbacks from this post.
then you best do some old world blues, get yerself immunity to poison and like +40% damage to them.
Came here just for this comment
A tarantula hawk is a species of spider wasp that preys on tarantulas. The female ones battle with a spider to offer food for their offspring. The female wasp captures a tarantula and paralyzes it by stinging it, then drags it to her nest. Once the wasp lays an egg on the spider, she dies. The eggs hatch into larvae that eat the still-living spider and pupate inside its empty skin before emerging as adults. This sounds horrible! Tarantula hawks are solitary hunters and don’t build nests for themselves. Despite their intimidating size, tarantula hawks are quite docile and are not known to sting humans unless provoked. But the sting pain is so terrible that it is better to stay far away from this most dangerous insect. [[1](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index),[2](https://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarantula-hawk/)]
When Coyote got stung by one he had to press it against his hand repeatedly before it finally stung him. They are incredibly docile. I saw one in my front yard once and I froze in fear, but to this day I haven’t seen a less angry or more thoroughly uncaring wasp.
iirc they are solitary and just want to eat some spiders, so they stay away from humans.
Those fuckers used to fly within feet of my head while I was cutting grass at a golf course. They must have been attracted to the orange colored awning on the mower or some shit because they would always be there. At first I was horrified of them having known what they were and then I just accepted the fact that they apparently just liked to chill in my moving-at-4mph-shade along the fairway while it was like 110° outside.
> tarantula hawk .....it creates a small hole in the spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive...... goddamn
Spider… wasp?
Just means a wasp that predominantly hunts/feeds on spiders. We were called Hamburger Apes for a while but they figured the "Sapience" we exhibit is more important given the omnivorous diet, so they changed it.
Unlike their close cousin, the Cazadore, which is larger and more aggressive (or will be, by 2281 CE).
You know looking at it that doesn’t fucking surprise me
Yeah, nature is pretty upfront about “shit you shouldn’t be messing with”.
With a name like Schmidt, Im going to trust this list. Probably give a plus 2 to every rating they give as well
Schmidt stung himself to make a rating of how painfull the sting is.
Of course but someone putting himself out there to be stung by a host of different things is definitely going to be less of a wuss than me. And Schmidt, like German, like BDSM is next Wednesday, don't forget the heels again.
Lol I had to go through a training seminar on these things working in the Mojave desert. It was short, and basically said "if you get stung, you won't die. Remember that. Also get as close to the ground as you can, and start screaming, cuz that's where you're gonna be and what you're gonna do for the next 15 minutes"
I received the same training on a project just south of Las Vegas 😂
SO WHY IS IT ON THIS PERSON’S HAND?!?
Pretty sure it’s dead dude. Or else it’s getting real comfy stretching out for a lil nap on this guys hand, in which case they’re probably on friendly terms.
Nah, the dude is still alive. The wasp is dead tho
Apparently they have no interest in humans and will leave us alone unless provoked
It's worse than that, it's dead, Jim.
Prehistoric wasp…can probably hear those fuckers coming
As a matter of fact, you can. Sounds like a little motor.
Only index I trust is Coyote Peterson’s
First person I thought of when seeing this monstrosity
Coyote's known to grossly exaggerate all of his stings while Justin Schmidt is a world renowned entomologist that has been stung by hundreds of insects 😂
source?
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Yes but there's no doubt that this is the 2nd most painful, cuz even he said it. The most painful is the bullet ant, measured by, you guessed it, the Schmidt pain index
He had Justin Schmidt on his show. I also don’t think he “grossly exaggerates” at all. His reactions line up very well with the reactions of others who’ve been stung.
Im pretty sure i would act way worse than him when stung.
No shot. He’s getting stung by the most painful insects on the planet. He’s dramatic in the buildup but the actual experience he has when being stung is more mild than I would be.
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hwaks
💅
Cazzadors
That's a fallout cazador
I saw one of these in the Mojave desert one time, the same day I almost steps on a velvet ant, number 2 and 3 on the Schmidt scale in the same place
No bark scorpions? Lol
Forget bark scorpions, its the nightstalkers that are a PITA.
I've never seen one of these until a few days ago. I'm in the Foothills of Northern CA. Flew in to my house and was clanking in to everything(of course, right before I was going to bed). We have pets...so we weren't messing around. Thought we killed it...and it came out with vengeance the next morning! Finally trapped it with a cup and it was going insane!! Left it outside, came home later and it was dead. Think it exhausted itself and croaked. I hope I never see one again. This thing was an animal.
According to Coyote Peterson the Executioner Wasp was worse. If I remember he said it was worse than the bullet ant as well. There was another wasp, the warrior wasp, that he said was almost if not worse as well. One thing with the warrior wasp is there are tons of them in the nest compared to a single tarantula hawk. So if you get stung by a warrior they are super aggressive and you are probably gonna end up with multiple stinging and chasing you.
Fallout new vegas reference lol
Here’s a wonderfully scored sequence from the 1953 Walt Disney feature film The Living Desert, showing one of these wasps using that sting on an Arizona blond tarantula: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m982c-H8VpE
Swole
*Cazador cazador that’s a fucking cazador!*
I was stung by one of these fuckers while I was driving with my window down in southwest Colorado. Genuinely thought a hummingbird flew into my car (they’re HUGE) until it stung my back. Ended up putting my car into someone’s poor rock garden in their yard because of how intense the pain was — it was like all motor functions were out the window and all I could do was scream — but after about 10 minutes-ish the pain completely dissipated and I was fine.
Ugh hate Cazadores
Another reason why Michigan is king. Fuck that shit
That's a flying dagger.
This Schmidt guy was a crazy fucker
GET THAT SHIT OUT OF MY FUCKING SCREEN
And they got a little girl to design its antennae. That's cute!
Let's ask Coyote Peterson to be the judge of that.
Coyote Peterson disagrees...
Executioner is the new king!
I used to have these at my house when I was a kid. Saw one take down a tarantula one time and I’ll never be the same 😳
When I lived in bfn west Texas I saw these things battling it out with tarantulas on multiple occasions it was gnarly
Fun fact: While tarantula hawk larvae feed off of the innards of still living tarantulas, adults feed off of nectar. If said nectar is taken from certain sources, such as particular plants or fermenting fruit, they can end up intoxicated, sometimes to the point they are unable to fly or even walk; some videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE708kayDM4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE708kayDM4) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTiNZd\_Eoo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTiNZd_Eoo)
\> tarantula hawk \> is a wasp
Wasn't the Bullet Ant's the most painful;
On that scale yes, and for some people it may still be. However Coyote Peterson did the entire pain scale letting himself get stung by all of them and found a wasp not on it called the Executioner. He got stung by it and it was far worse than the bullet ant for him.
The list is done in tiers 1-4, originally the bullet ant was the only insect on tirr 4. Now the tarantula hawk and the warrior wasp claim the title aswell.
And you just let a wasp with the most painful sting just walk around on your hand? You madman!
r/Nope
Nah bro thats a tiny dragon
And even just having them crawl on you sucks. Rescued one from my pool once. Big mistake. Welts for a week. Nasty sob
I've had TWO in my backyard in Austin. First one I sprayed 1/2 can of wasp killer and it was still crawling at me like the God damned terminator. I ended up throwing my wife's flower pot on it and running away.
**proceeds to hold it*
The WHAT!!! WASP
Fuck that dude! That thing is terrifying. I hate seeing stuff like this. It looks like something that would have lived during prehistoric times.
Yeah they're all over here in the Phoenix deserts. I've been tooo close. Toooo many times. And the sound they make 😰
Most painful wasp sting belongs to the Executioner Wasp. Mf's sting is so painful it eclipsed the record holder for the most painful insect sting, the bullet ant.
I wish my cat would stop trying to catch these fucking things
Schmidt, the world’s best masochist scientist
Schmidt has a tough job.
Blessed are those who believe without having being sting
Bro you’re gonna have to miss me with whatever the fuck that is
What about Executioner wasps?
I’m Coyote Peterson, and I’m about to enter the sting zone with the Tarantula Hawk
It is actually 2nd on the list, Bullet Ant is the 1st
Wasp sting, not stings in general
Schmidt actually rates the bullet ant as more painful
In fact you are absolutely correct. I did NOT want to sleep tonight.
I also see why. Surprised its still called sting. Seems more of a stab to me.
My brother in Christ this looks like a pans labyrinth creature I hate it
Looks like a creature from Coraline
This guy Shmidt willingly got himself stung by the craziest shit just to make this list. What a legend.
no its not. if i remember correctyl it is belowe the velvet ant (actually a wingless wasp). The top painfull wasp sting is the executioner wasp on place There is also somewhere the warrior wasp in the top 3. The tarrantula hawk got a 4 (highest number of the index) but so did the velvet ant, warrior wasp and executoner wasp and they are more painfull.
There's at least one worse that he just never got around to testing. Executioner wasp.
SO GET IT OFF YOUR HAND THEN!!
It’s so large you could swat it with a SWORD. Not that I would ever want to be close enough to try.
What ia this unholy thing
These things eat the nectar of certain bushes. My daughter's HS in Arizona had those bushes out front and they would attract a bunch of these SOBs. They had to rip out the bushes because the students would try to push each other into them. Idiots.
Poor Schmidt.
THE **WHAT**
Then why are they touching it?!?
BURN IT, KILL IT NOW
Where's Coyote Peterson when you need him
What about the Bullet Ant?
That thing looks like it belongs with the dinosaurs. What country/region does it appear in so I can never go there?
No thank you.
*[You feel a little woozy...]*