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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a dedicated mother who tackles massive spiders to provide food for her young.