tarantula
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Tarantula hawks are pollinators, sampling nectar from flowering plants, but when it’s time to raise their young, the females of the species take on a different demeanor.
From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2023
The Tarantula Nebula can be found roughly 161,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022
Growing up, her friends called her Terri Tarantula because of her infatuation with the fanged, eight-eyed arachnid.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2022
The heart of the series is its charismatic gang of “bad guys” striving to be heroes — Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark and Ms. Tarantula — but failing hilariously time and again.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2022
The wisest counsellors are my deep discontents, and I hate that which should salve my harm, like the patient which stung with the Tarantula loathes music, and yet the disease incurable but by melody.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
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