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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Red-winged Spider Wasp

Tachypompilus ferrugineus

About

A large rusty-red spider wasp that hunts wolf spiders and other large ground spiders. It drags paralyzed prey across the ground to its burrow.

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Did You Know?

Females can drag spiders many times their own weight across rough terrain to reach their nesting burrows.