A battle between a large tarantula and a giant wasp has been caught on camera. And the outcome of the fight in Arizona might surprise you, until you find out the name of the wasp: Tarantula Hawk. Yep, ...

Watching fights between creatures in the wild can be an interesting insight into how they attack opponents and defend themselves. It says a lot about their evolution and how they have developed into ...

The tarantula hawk, a wasp that specifically hunts tarantulas, stings the spider repeatedly, leaving it paralysed and defenceless in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA. Karen and Matthew Perry, from ...

Here in the dusty Sonoran desert, an insect lurks with one of the world's most painful stings. The sting belongs to the Pepsis and Hemepepsis wasps, or, as the average person calls them, the Tarantula ...

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A comparative educational segment examining the defensive mechanisms and venom potency of a tarantula versus the notoriously painful sting of a Bull Ant (Myrmecia).