[meteorite-list] Creepy crawlies!

[Richard Montgomery]

Epic!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>; "Richard Montgomery" 
<rickmont at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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" <rickmont at earthlink.net>
> To: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>; "Adam" 
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> 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" <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Adam" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> 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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