I don't think anyone has ever seen a tarantula kill the wasp,' says Gavin. 'The spiders will usually try to flee or avoid them at all costs.' Adult tarantula hawks get their nutrition from nectar, but ...

An Arizona biologist sent shudders across social media after showcasing the scary, incapacitating effects of a spider wasp ... was referring to the tarantula hawk, a sparrow-sized wasp that ...

Arizona is home to around 30 species of tarantulas, but there's one fearless predator that's making headlines— the tarantula hawk ... on nectar and hunting spiders rather than interacting ...

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 behavior ...

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 ...

(credit: PIXABAY) “ A review article compared different species of spider wasps, and tarantulas stung by tarantula hawk wasps in the Pepsis genus can take up to eight months to recover.” ...

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 ...