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, ...

A bizarre video has emerged of a wasp and a tarantula having a deadly wrestling match in Congress, Arizona. The footage, shot by a resident in August, shows a tarantula-hawk wasp attacking a ...

The southwest Texas desert park also shared terrifying footage of the colorful wasp in action, as it carried a paralyzed tarantula off to its nest hidden inside a dark hole in the ground.

Although the tarantula can easily kill Pepsis, one species permits the wasp to sting it and lay an egg in its body By Alexander Petrunkevitch Join Our Community of Science Lovers!

Social species capture insects, chop them up and carry parts back to the nest. Some solitary species are more sinister. For example, most spider wasps, such as the tarantula hawk, paralyse arachnid ...