{"id":505,"date":"2019-03-25T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/?p=505"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T09:19:52","slug":"tarantula-hawk-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/tarantula-hawk-wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantula Hawk wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To find this flying bug it\u2019s all across Latin America but mostly in Mexico. There are round about 250 species of tarantula hawk wasp. The wasp grows to about five centimetres<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This insect lives up to its name hunting down tarantulas, when fighting it has pin point accuracy as it stings right into the central nerve system of the spider. Within 1-2 seconds after the spider receives the sting it goes limp. It doesn\u2019t kill the spider it just makes it go paralysed, so it\u2019s brain and heart still works.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Its sting can cause full body agony and it is the worlds second most painful sting second to that of a bullet ant.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tarantula hawk has a great strength able to drag a spider back to its burrow before burying the tarantula alive it lays a single egg on the spider abdomen. Slowly and painfully the larvae eats the spider from the inside out. If the spider is female the wasp will be female and if the spider is male then the wasp is male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To find this flying bug it\u2019s all across Latin America but mostly in Mexico. There are round about 250 species of tarantula hawk wasp. The wasp grows to about five centimetres\u00a0 This insect lives up to its name hunting down tarantulas, when fighting it has pin point accuracy as it stings right into the central&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}