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 ...

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

These images focus on the magic of the commonplace, the surprise of the unexpected or the wonder of the normally unseen. Jaime was shocked to see this tarantula hawk wasp dragging its prey across his ...

He is known for creating the Schmidt pain scale index, which goes from a one (like a sweat bee) to a four (the level of a tarantula hawk wasp). The yellow jackets that were likely the first stings ...

The tarantula hawk is not a hawk but a type of spider wasp. Unlike the bull-headed dung beetle, this creepy critter looks the part! This wasp is known for paralyzing tarantulas with a 12mm long ...