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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Tarantula hawks are meant to be in Nevada. According to Knight, they're just one species out of over one thousand of the native wasps and bees that live here. They serve as pollinators to milkweed ...

Tarantula hawks: These are large wasps with metallic blue-black bodies and bright orange wings. They are known for their painful sting and their behavior of hunting tarantulas. Velvet ants ...