Arizona is home to around 30 species of tarantulas, but there's one fearless predator that's making headlines— the tarantula hawk. With its striking blue and orange colors, this wasp is a top ...

The Tarantula Hawk (Pepsis formosa) is actually a spider wasp that can grow up to 2 1/2 nches long with a 4-inch-wide wing span. This one had a beautiful blackish-blue, metallic body with vivid ...

Few creatures deliver a sting quite like the tarantula hawk wasp – known as one of the most excruciatingly painful stings in the natural world. In this episode, we dive into the biology and ...

Tarantula hawks, which are actually a species of wasp, belong to a large and very diverse insect family known as the Pompilidae family. This family is represented by several thousand species that ...

At two-inches-long, the blue-black demon is one of the bigger wasps you'll ever encounter. In 1989, New Mexico named it their state insect. There's a good chance that the sting might send the area ...

While the wasp is best known for its excruciating sting — which scores a mind-numbing 4 on the Schmidt Pain Index (right under the agony-inducing bullet ant) — the tarantula hawk also induces ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps ...

Two of these wasps are in a group called mud daubers. Two additional types are known as rusty spider wasps and tarantula hawks. Except for reproduction during spring and fall, these arachnid ...

The tarantula hawk wasp is rated a four, the highest possible rating, on the Schmidt sting pain index. It sits alongside a bullet ant. In comparison, a yellow jacket sting is ranked at level two ...

The tarantula hawk wasp females give them their name. The insect requires a spider to serve as a host for their larvae and tarantulas are the preferred nursery.

Arizona is home to some of the most venomous creatures on the planet. If you want to be precise, know that ...