tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in ...

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 ...

Human-related stings I’m aware of have been caused by people trying to catch or mess with them,” said Gustafson. “Tarantula hawk wasps are venomous, however, their stings evolved to subdue ...

Viewers were paralyzed with fear. An Arizona biologist sent shudders across social media after showcasing the scary, incapacitating effects of a spider wasp’s sting — which can immobilize its ...

“On June 13th, I collected a tarantula that had been paralyzed by a hawk wasp,” Legan says ... weapon,’ the fangs with multiple stings into the cephalothorax, but sometimes directly ...

It has one of the most painful stings known to man ... and especially with the bees and wasps and things like the Tarantula hawk wasp, if we plant plants that are pollinator friendly and that ...

"A female wasp stings and paralyzes tarantulas ... Aside from their namesake behavior of hunting tarantulas, tarantula hawks primarily feed on nectar, according to TPWD. They are not usually ...

From the excruciating sting of the tarantula hawk wasp to the potentially life-threatening bite of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, the state is home to a variety of insects, arachnids ...