[Question] Bee stings

[GasBandit]

Why? Because New Mexicans be crazy, yo.

I used to live in Albuquerque. I went to New Mexico Tech in Socorro. You are making a dramatic, dramatic understatement.

 

[checkeredhat]

The reason it's so big? It fights tarantulas, paralyzes them, then drags them back to the wasp nest to lay an egg on them. The egg hatches and feeds on the living, though paralyzed, tarantula.

http://mypestprevention.com/2011/05/1077/

Typically one to two inches long, so that's a particularly large specimen.

Also the state insect for New Mexico.

Why? Because New Mexicans be crazy, yo.

They were also mutated by Dr. Borous, in the name of SCIENCE, at Big MT to create the Cazadors that inhabit the Mojave wasteland in 2281