Tarantula Hawk Wasp
The tarantula hawk wasp is a crafty mother
Brings up babies without slightest bother
A clever hider,
she looks for a spider
ZAP! A sting
When tarantula's legs turn to jelly
she lays an egg in its belly
It may sound cruel
but it's her larvae's fuel
It's a hawk wasp motherly thing.
Brings up babies without slightest bother
A clever hider,
she looks for a spider
ZAP! A sting
When tarantula's legs turn to jelly
she lays an egg in its belly
It may sound cruel
but it's her larvae's fuel
It's a hawk wasp motherly thing.
Picture is copyright (©) Marianne Thidling 2025
This poem is copyright (©) Marianne Thidling 2025
About the Writer
Marianne Thidling
Marianne is a Swedish/Finnish writer and illustrator of children's picture books, mainly focusing on non-fiction. Nature and the environment are her obsessions. Former home-schooler of three children. A member of SCBWI since 2021 as well as 12x12 Picture Book Challenge, also since 2021. To keep evolving as an illustrator, she participates in The Good Ship Illustration Picture Book course from the U.K. Since 2022 Marianne has volunteered as a translator, Swedish to English with Translators Without Borders.
She lives part of the year in Portugal and part of the year on a sailing catamaran in the South Pacific.
Website www.mariannethidling.com
