The tarantula hawks sting their prey and use the dead tarantula's body to lay an egg in. |
Next, they listened to a brief taped story about a spider while they viewed three photographs of a tarantula. |
All tarantula hawks are large, with metallic blue coloration, and have distinctive curly antennae. |
Gorb and colleagues discovered the tarantulas' silk-spinning abilities by examining glass plates scattered vertically in a tarantula terrarium. |
The tarantula hawk bends its long abdomen forward and underneath the tarantula to deliver a paralytic venom with its mighty stinger. |
After a few more minutes with EFT, Molly went back into the pet store and calmly viewed the tarantula. |