Wolf spiders may be tough hunters, but they’re not without predators, including some species of hunting wasps. The wasp paralyzes the spider with its sting, drags it to a burrow and lays an egg on its ...

What goes around, comes around. For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmare of flies, wasps are surely the worst nightmare of many spiders.

Having been attacked, paralysed and implanted with a wasp egg to its belly, a wolf spider carries on with its ordinary life. At least, until it is time for the larva to reach out for its first ...

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.

What goes around, comes around. For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmare of flies, wasps are surely the worst nightmare of many spiders.

Spider wasps normally target free-living spiders, those that do not make webs such as wolf spiders and jumping spiders.

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, ...

Are tarantula hawks poisonous to humans? “Tarantula hawk wasps are venomous, however, their stings evolved to subdue other arthropods — particularly tarantulas.

A nightmarish scene involving a wasp carrying a giant spider in Australia has taken social media by storm. The viral pic of the creepy-crawly incident snapped in Bronte, Sydney depicts a fiery oran… ...

The wasp, which is parasitic, was attacking the tarantula in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. The insect’s goal was to try to paralyze the spider, as the child suspected.

The tarantula hawk is actually a kind of solitary wasp, with a sting that causes a fiercely electric pain that could only be described as totally unacceptable.