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The US state of New Mexico chose the insect in 1989 to become its official state insect. Its selection was prompted by a group of Edgewood, New Mexico, elementary school children doing research on states which had adopted state insects. They selected three insects as candidates, and mailed ballots to all schools for a state-wide election. The winner was the tarantula hawk wasp (specifically, P. formosa).
The Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle has been named after the tarantula hawk.
In the video game Fallout: New Vegas, the Tarantula Hawks have been mutated inside a research facility known as the Big MT into deadly new creatures called Cazadores, which means "hunters" in Spanish. The adult Cazador is approximately the size of an adult human, and very aggressive.
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“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)