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, ...

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, ...

For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must surely be the worst nightmares of ...

A macro photographer has captured the moment a spider-hunting wasp paralysed its prey. Colin Edwards saw the wasp - which is rarely seen in Scotland - hunting a crab spider in his garden in ...

The wasp can then be seen dragging the spider into the bushes to, according to reports, lay eggs in its abdomen. "I came across these two giants fighting in a desert wash in Arizona a few hours ...

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.

There, the wasp lays an egg on the tarantula, ensuring a fresh food source for the larva when it hatches. This might sound a ...

An Aussie was puzzled this week after she discovered what appeared to be a strange nest sitting on her backyard lounge.