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, ...

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 ...

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 wasp expert was referring to the tarantula hawk, a sparrow-sized wasp that resides in the American Southwest and is known for paralyzing its arachnid namesake with its sting. It then lays eggs ...

In recent videos, Andrew W. Legan, Ph.D., a biologist on the social media platform TikTok, showcased the effects of tarantula hawk wasp venom on a tarantula. “On June 13th, I collected a ...

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 ...

Notable examples include the cicada killer wasp, which preys on cicadas but is generally not aggressive towards humans, and the tarantula hawk, known for its extremely painful sting, but usually ...

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, ...