Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This video explores the surreal biology of the tarantula hawk, an extraordinary solitary wasp that combines striking beauty with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sting of a tarantula hawk wasp is unlike any other insect sting. It is debilitating. So what does a tarantula hawk wasp sting ...

What do you get when you combine a killer wasp with a tarantula hunter? You get the tarantula hawk. Now, these insects are not a hybrid of a tarantula and a hawk, they are giant spider wasps known for ...

Tarantula hawk wasps are among the most formidable insect predators, using a precisely delivered sting to paralyze spiders many times their size. Their venom targets the nervous system, leaving the ...

Last year, I posted an essay called Some Truths About the Fascinating Lives of Wasps, which discussed an article published in New Scientist by Richard Jones called "Not so Waspish," with the subtitle, ...

A tarantula hawk wasp is one of the largest wasps in the world. They are aptly named because they inject tarantulas with their venom, which immobilizes the spiders and allows the wasps to drag them ...