Originally Posted by pitbulllady
Yep, we have those colorful Pepsis wasps here, too, only they have to settle for big Wolf spiders and the occasional Kukulcania. I've never been stung by one personally, though I've had one give me a good "telling-off" for getting too close to her burrow, and she was about two inches long, which is HUGE for a wasp, so I took her advice and backed off! I've seen dogs that had made the mistake of trying to eat one of these, and their faces looked almost as bad as if they'd been bitten by a small rattler!
If you know anyone who doesn't mind capturing tarantulas, and can round me up a few females(though I could use a male, which are the ones found out wandering around, since I've got a couple of lonely girls over here), and follow directions on shipping, I would really love to have a couple more, and Sparky probably wouldn't turn down another A. chalcodes, either. They're such nice animals, pretty to look at and to touch, like eight-legged Golden Retrievers! YOu might better hang onto the scorpions, unless you know for sure that you haven't found an Arizona Bark ScorpionCentroides exilicauda, since those can actually kill people, and in tests on their venom, have been shown to be even more potent, drop-for-drop, than the infamous Israeli Death Stalker Scorpion, long thought to be the deadliest invertebrate on land. You've probably got lots of big Desert Hairy Scorpions and Dune Scorpions, though, which aren't too bad.
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