tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in ...

But just how did stingers come to be? And why do stings hurt so dang much? This is the evolution of stingers.

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 tarantula hawk only ranks as like the third most painful sting on the insect Sting Pain ... The only fours that exist are the warrior wasp and the bullet ant. Now the bullet ant I've been ...

to a four (the level of a tarantula hawk wasp). The yellow jackets that were likely the first stings many of us experienced just rate a two. The scale, which Schmidt developed after getting stung ...

Although the tarantula can easily kill Pepsis, one species permits the wasp to sting it and lay an egg in its body About the odd relationship between the tarantula and the giant wasp Pepsis.

Number 16, a female trapdoor spider, outlived all known spiders, surpassing the previous record-holder, a 28-year-old tarantula. Despite her longevity, Number 16 couldn’t escape nature’s cycle ...

Some solitary species are more sinister. For example, most spider wasps, such as the tarantula hawk, paralyse arachnid prey using a venomous sting. Their larvae then eat the victim alive. There are ...