Arizona is home to around 30 species of tarantulas, but there's one fearless predator that's making headlines— the tarantula hawk. With its striking blue and orange colors, this wasp is a top ...

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, ...

the tarantula hawk ranks so high that the actual scientific advice if you're stung is to lie down and scream. Dandy if you're a human, but if you are a tarantula, the wasp's prey, it's even worse.

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. It then lays eggs ...

Teigen was informed by Twitter users that what she said was a "nice" bug was actually a tarantula hawk wasp, which has one of the most painful stings. The tarantula hawk wasp is rated a four ...

Joining the bullet ant at four is a critter that lives right here in the southwestern US: the tarantula hawk. It’s actually a kind of solitary wasp with a sting whose resulting pain only lasts ...