One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest spider run away in terror: the tarantula hawk. Dr Gavin Broad, wasp expert at the Museum, uncovers the eccentricities of this small but sinister ...

shows a tarantula-hawk wasp attacking a tarantula by flipping it on its back and stinging it so it becomes paralyzed. The wasp can then be seen dragging the spider into the bushes to, according to ...