Demand for exotic pets and collectors’ items drives a flourishing illegal trade in beetles, spiders ... a Japanese hornet, and a tarantula hawk—an enormous wasp that paralyzes tarantulas ...

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 ...

I’m going to come out and say it immediately, I’m not particularly knowledgeable about Costa Rica’s spiders. This little country boasts ... species is them being dragged to their doom by tarantula ...

Little studied, these spiders are the object of a booming illicit trade as pets and display pieces. A captive-bred Mexican fireleg tarantula is seen up close outside Tarantulas of Mexico ...

Here’s a look at some of the spiders you might see in brush, in gardens, in trees and even in your home, this summer in Texas. Did you know? Tarantula ... that when you kill a spider, you ...

Even in a biotech suit, beekeepers aren’t safe from Asian Giant Hornets, as thousands attack in a viral video!

But suddenly, your once-thriving green friends are looking sickly. Welcome to the frustrating world of spider mites — microscopic plant vampires that can turn a healthy houseplant into a ...

Cubs orphaned after someone kills mother bear Tensions are running high in Jasper after authorities there say a mother black bear was shot and killed in the bent tree community, orphaning her two cubs ...

A 19-year-old motorcycle rider died in a May 16 collision with another vehicle in Boynton Beach, police said. Paramedics took Mike Grajales to Delray Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead.

A traffic stop in California’s North Bay area led authorities to search a man’s home and find a spider monkey, rattlesnakes, and over $25,000 worth of methamphetamine. Deputies in Vallejo, about 34 ...