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Tarantula Hawks Live in a small Ecosystem. They are active during the day but they avoid hot temperatures. The Tarantula Hawks usually live in desert scrub; A desert that usually has lots of small "Shrubs" and other vegetation. Tarantula Hawks can be found in India, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Americas. The larvae feed on tarantulas while the adults eat nectar and pollen. Very few animals are known as predators to the Tarantula Hawk, other than roadrunners and bullfrogs.

List of Abiotic and Biotic things in the Tarantula Hawks ecosystem

ABIOTIC

This is the list for the abiotic parts:
Sand
Dirt
Warm temperatures
Nectar
Physical Barrier: Hot temperatures

BIOTIC

Here is a web to show you the biotic parts of the Tarantula Hawks ecosystem.

This is the list for the biotic parts:
Roadrunner
Bullfrog
Tarantulas
Coyotes
Eagles
Flies
Lizards
Snakes
Other tarantulas
Lesser long-nosed bats
Monarch butterflies
Black chinned hummingbird
Other bees and wasps
Humans

Adaptations

The Tarantula Hawk has a stinger that can paralyze anything it stings (within reason).
It uses the still living spider as a place to put her egg on.
The Tarantula Hawk has a pre dug burrow to drag the spider to.
There is little information on the Tarantula Hawk, and it's adaptations.

Consumer

The Tarantula Hawk is a consumer. Consumers are organisms that eat other organisms. For example a bear eats a salmon, the bear is a consumer.