Learn how this wasp can make you spend '5 minutes in hell'

"Five minutes in hell." This is a description of one of the people who have ever suffered one of the worst pains a man can experience caused by the hawk tarantula wasp. Scientists, expert biologists, and others who have stung compare the pain with a strong electric shock. Extremely torturous, the affliction can last between 3 and 5 minutes, but it is reported to feel eternal.

According to Oddity Central, the pain is so severe that it can cause some people to lose track and control over their movements. Thus, the recommendation of the experts and those who have faced the pain, to overcome the difficult moment after the sting, is to throw yourself on the floor, scream and cry as much as you can until the pain passes.

According to the Kansas Society of Entomology Journal, this is because the amount of venom produced by the hawk tarantula wasp is enormous and its action on the organism is immediate. The poison does not have enough toxicity to affect vertebrates in a fatal way, but the stinging pain is considered the most intense caused by an insect and can cause people to have unexpected reactions, such as running or struggling, so that eventually Hurting.

Reports and recommendations are reinforced by Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife biologist Ben Hutchins, who cites a famous experiment published in a periodical vehicle. In this experiment, a scientist captured 10 specimens of the wasp and was stung trying to hold them. "Not satisfied, he continued and received several other stings until the pain became so unbearable that he lost his captured wasps and took shelter in a ditch to cry until he almost lost his eyes, " the report reports.

Hutchins claims that the scientific community believes that the defense mechanisms of the hawk tarantula explain the fact that this species has few natural predators. Appearance and effective poison make few creatures in the world want to mess with this wasp. According to Oddity Central, in fact, wasps are not aggressive and pose no risk unless they are provoked or attacked.

Not even humans need to worry or feel threatened by them, as behavior, strangely enough, is docile to people. Even with the existing case reports of attacks on humans, the biologist ensures that people do not have to be afraid and considers the insect a very interesting copy of the fauna.

That's right, believe it or not, they are "friendly" and do not attack humans, as males feed on nectar, are not carnivores and cannot even sting. Females, on the other hand, are parasites that use the poison to attack tarantulas (spider crabs), which are often much larger than wasps. See the attack in the following video.

Even so, with just one bite, the spiders are paralyzed and taken (video below) to the hawk-tarantula nest pit, where for a few weeks they will be fed to the larva resulting from the wasp's egg. What is striking about this situation is that the prey remains alive until it is eaten by the flying insect 'young'.

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