Crossword clues for pepsis
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Pepsis is a genus of spider wasps belonging to the family Pompilidae.
Species within this genus are also called tarantula hawks, as they usually hunt tarantulas, similarly to many species in the genus Hemipepsis.
These wasps are present throughout the Americas, Australia, Africa and India to Southeast Asia.
Usage examples of "pepsis".
A big pepsis wasp, about six inches long, buzzed lazily around his head and flew away as he waved his hand at it.
Now, suddenly, the two became still, the spider still trying to get its pincers down to bite the wasp, the pepsis bracing its legs and driving home the sting.
Now, with the ants and the pepsis wasp to do their foraging and hunting, they had almost forgotten what hunger was like.
The ants, who seemed to respond to the mood of their masters, would come and lie at their feet, occupying most of the floor space, while the pepsis wasp dozed in its own fur-lined nest high on the wall.
On the day before they set out, Veig went hunting with the pepsis wasp, and caught a large desert rodent.
Since Veig had domesticated the ants and the pepsis wasp, hunting had become a sport rather than a necessity.
This one was about the size of the trapdoor spider on which the pepsis wasp had laid its egg.
Hall was mean for giving homework on Fridays, all the ways Debra Gilhooly had of being such a bitch, how she and Pepsi had planned to go trick-or-treating as Spice Girls last Halloween and Mom had said Pepsis Mom could do whatever she wanted, but no nine-year-old girl of hers was going out trick-or-treating in a short skirt, high heels, and a cammi top.
The spiders were a prey to a wasp called the pepsis, or tarantula hawk, a creature not much larger than a man's hand, which would paralyse them with its sting then use them as a living larder to feed its grubs.