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 ...

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 ...

The tarantula hawk — a large and striking wasp with a metallic, blue-black body and bright orange wings — is known for delivering one of the most excruciating stings in the insect world.

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 ...

Although the tarantula can easily kill Pepsis, one species permits the wasp to sting it and lay an egg in its body About the odd relationship between the tarantula and the giant wasp Pepsis.

About two months ago, we witnessed outdoor adventurer Coyote Peterson let a wasp known as a tarantula hawk sting him on his arm. Boasting the second most painful sting in the insect world ...

The tarantula hawk only ranks as like the third most painful sting on the insect Sting Pain ... The only fours that exist are the warrior wasp and the bullet ant. Now the bullet ant I've been ...

The tarantula hawk's sting is considered the second most painful by the Schmidt sting pain index; it usually lasts about 5 minutes ...

to a four (the level of a tarantula hawk wasp). The yellow jackets that were likely the first stings many of us experienced just rate a two. The scale, which Schmidt developed after getting stung ...

Probably one of the tarantula hawks like Pepsis. When Gavin gives talks to schoolchildren, this is always their favourite. You know the routine by now: the wasp lands on the spider, stings it to a ...

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 ...