Mother Nature Creates Giger-Inspired Wasp!
Posted by Tony on June 30th, 2012
Let’s imagine Mother Nature wanted to create a wasp to remind us that she’s still very much in charge of things. Let’s say she’s been looking at a lot of HR Giger’s work for inspiration. Now let’s say that she’s already finished it and released it into the wild.
That horrifying looking thing pictured above is actually real….and it’s called a couple of equally terrifying things; “King of Wasps”, “Horror Wasp” and “Warrior Wasp”. It’s also one more piece of evidence that suggests Mother Nature is getting ready to maybe shake off all the helpless human beings that keep putting up strip malls.
Discovered only as recently as 2011 by Lynn Kimsey of UC Davis in California, the wasp has been dubbed Garuda, the name of a mythical figure that is part-human, part eagle. Garuda is not the biggest known wasp in the world (that award goes to another wasp commonly referred to a the ‘Tarantula Hawk’) but it is the most intimidating-looking wasp out there.
Kimsey discovered the wasp in the Mekongga Mountains of Indonesia and says that they weren’t very common.
That’s great news. We’re sure TSA’s meticulous searches (read that with oozing sarcasm, folks) found any that might’ve stowed away in her luggage, right?
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June 30th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
We have tarantula hawk wasps around here but you don’t see them often – they sound like remote-control model planes when they fly by.
My son saw his first one last year & he phoned me immediately – he couldn’t believe it until I explained to him what is was.