Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

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 ...

The great black wasp is an extremely big-sized species with opaque wings that are black in color and have a bluish shine to them. In scientific classification, it goes by the name of “Sphex ...

Creatures that sting are greatly feared not just by humans but also by their predators and prey. But just how did stingers come to be? And why do stings hurt so dang much? This is the evolution of ...

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office say at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, 22-year-old Emma Faust of Waterloo was driving north in the 10500 block of Hawkeye Road when she crossed the center line and collided ...

Technically, there is at least one dead wasp per fig. However, you are in no way eating a live wasp. That wasp exoskeleton is always broken down before we bite into figs.

Tarantula hawk wasps are the largest stinging insects in Arkansas. Luckily, they are also among the least interested in humans and would much rather be dragging paralyzed tarantulas into a burrow ...

By AUSTIN JONES | U of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a tarantula hawk wasp! Tarantula hawk wasps are the largest stinging insects in Arkansas. Luckily, they ...

After doing some research, I learned the Pepsis Wasp is actually a pretty infamous insect. It has one of the most painful stings known to man, can grow up to the size of a hand, wingspan and all ...

Tarantula hawk stingers generally do not get stuck in the skin like honeybee stingers do. The stinger of a tarantula hawk wasp is smooth and not barbed, so it doesn’t break off or get left in ...