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, ...
About 13 of the 250-plus species of tarantula hawks wasps occur in Texas, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). Aside from their namesake behavior of hunting tarantulas ...
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 ...
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 ...
Not all wasps are social. Some prefer a solitary life and build simpler nests to rear their young. There are 200 species in the UK that make this type of nest. Tarantula hawks are wasps with what is ...