Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia - is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, ...

Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia - is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, ...

Oftentimes, they only bite or sting as a defense to help them get away. With something like the tarantula hawk, it was pretty intense. It was like an electrical shock into my arm. It actually put ...

The common honey bee sting feels like "the oven mitt had a hole in it when you pulled the cookies out of the oven." The tarantula hawk wasp's sting, which rates a brutal 4 on Schmidt's scale ...

These stings can cause swelling ... The arm that got stung became inflamed and the pain lasted around 6 hours. The tarantula hawk wasp is an interesting species of wasp. There are 133 species ...

The tarantula hawk's sting is considered the second most painful by the Schmidt sting pain index; it usually lasts about 5 minutes ...

The footage, shot by a resident in August, shows a tarantula-hawk wasp attacking a tarantula by flipping it on its back and stinging it so it becomes paralyzed. The wasp can then be seen dragging ...