Posted: 6/17/2015 10:03:02 PM EDT
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So this bug (the red one with blue wings) went all "gonna eat your ass" on the wolf spider.
What am I looking at? Is there any hope other than killing it with fire or nuking it from orbit? Should we just sell the farm now?? 
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Never seen a red one with blue wings, and the interwebs doesn't have any pics I can find. Quoted:
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Dirt dauber Never seen a red one with blue wings, and the interwebs doesn't have any pics I can find. Neither have I, ours are purplish/black. But they do sting/collect spiders and resemble the insect in that picture very closely. Maybe it is some color permutation, maybe it is some other kind of wasp that self identifies as a dirt dauber. |
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Neither have I, ours are purplish/black. But they do sting/collect spiders and resemble the insect in that picture very closely. Maybe it is some color permutation, maybe it is some other kind of wasp that self identifies as a dirt dauber. Quoted:
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Dirt dauber Never seen a red one with blue wings, and the interwebs doesn't have any pics I can find. Neither have I, ours are purplish/black. But they do sting/collect spiders and resemble the insect in that picture very closely. Maybe it is some color permutation, maybe it is some other kind of wasp that self identifies as a dirt dauber. I laughed. Its a transectual. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_wasp
n 1984, Justin O. Schmidt, a researcher from Arizona, developed a hymenopteran sting pain scale, now known as the Schmidt sting pain index. In this index, a 0 is given to a sting from an insect that can not break through human skin, a 2 is given for intermediate pain, and a 4 is given for intense pain. The scale rates stings from 78 different species in 42 different genera.[18] Spider wasps of the genus Pepsis, also known as tarantula hawks, have a sting rating of 4. The sting is described as "blinding, fierce, and shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has been dropped into your bubble bath."[19] Only the sting of the Bullet Ant, Paraponera clavata, is ranked higher, with a 4+ rating. 
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Quoted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_wasp n 1984, Justin O. Schmidt, a researcher from Arizona, developed a hymenopteran sting pain scale, now known as the Schmidt sting pain index. In this index, a 0 is given to a sting from an insect that can not break through human skin, a 2 is given for intermediate pain, and a 4 is given for intense pain. The scale rates stings from 78 different species in 42 different genera.[18] Spider wasps of the genus Pepsis, also known as tarantula hawks, have a sting rating of 4. The sting is described as "blinding, fierce, and shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has been dropped into your bubble bath."[19] Only the sting of the Bullet Ant, Paraponera clavata, is ranked higher, with a 4+ rating. Immediate pain beyond belief, like a hot soldering iron and a cattle prod, at the same time. I've been hit with both, just not at the same time and not in the belly. I immediately stopped and tried to express venom from the wheal that instantly formed. It was a noticeable puncture wound of disturbing depth. Fiends was not a typo, they left me like a bad habit, I was forced to pedal back to the Hotel Limpia solo, amidst bouts of vomiting and general malaise. When I got there, a friend fetched some topical diphenhydramine and I mixed a quad Martini, shaken and not stirred. Recovery was without serious symptoms but the ulcerated wound the sting left took two months to heal. First it went through an expansion phase where dead tissue increased the diameter to 3/8" (10 mm for the metrifags ;) ). Then a slow healing from the margins as it was a full depth skin regrowth, much like a third degree burn. I still have a palpable and visible scar. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_wasp n 1984, Justin O. Schmidt, a researcher from Arizona, developed a hymenopteran sting pain scale, now known as the Schmidt sting pain index. In this index, a 0 is given to a sting from an insect that can not break through human skin, a 2 is given for intermediate pain, and a 4 is given for intense pain. The scale rates stings from 78 different species in 42 different genera.[18] Spider wasps of the genus Pepsis, also known as tarantula hawks, have a sting rating of 4. The sting is described as "blinding, fierce, and shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has been dropped into your bubble bath."[19] Only the sting of the Bullet Ant, Paraponera clavata, is ranked higher, with a 4+ rating. Whew! Glad no stings! |