A wasp with a frightening method of reproduction, the tarantula hawk paralyzes tarantulas with its sting, then lays an egg on the spider. The hatched larva will eat the still-living tarantula from the ...

In the insect world, the spider wasp’s ability to paralyze a tarantula is quite remarkable. The wasp uses its sting to immobilize the spider ... of stealth in nighttime encounters with diurnal hawks.

The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles, resembling “a small bear trap attached ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...