For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must surely be the worst nightmares of many spiders! The nest contents of a few species of our area’s wasps ...

Viewers were paralyzed with fear. An Arizona biologist sent shudders across social media after showcasing the scary, incapacitating effects of a spider wasp’s sting — which can immobilize its ...

A mom has captured the bloodcurdling moment a wasp and huntsman spider faced off in a street battle – but it’s what happened after the fight that has Australians squirming. Emily Teede ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

“Straya (Australia), where even spiders aren’t safe,” she captioned the clip on TikTok. The two creepy-crawlies take a few fierce stabs at each other in the video before the wasp deals a ...

A parasitic wasp forces its host to weave a special web for its own ends. On the evening that it will kill its orb-weaving spider host, the larva of the ichneumonid wasp Hymenoepimecis sp.

There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in the UK, comprising a huge variety of solitary and social species. The majority are parasitoids, which have young that eat insects or spiders alive. But ...