🕷️ It's spooky season, but no horror movies were needed to get the heebie-jeebies when one of our park rangers recently observed a parasitic wasp and its prey. 🪰 This female tarantula hawk is carrying a paralyzed tarantula back to its burrow where it will lay an egg on the spider, then seal the baby and its frozen meal in the dirt. 🪰 When the egg hatches, the wasp larva will slowly eat the spider, instinctually avoiding vital organs to keep it alive as long as possible until it emerges from t