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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — Tarantulas, beware. It's officially mating season for New Mexico's state insect, the tarantula hawk. They're a ...

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 ...

Tarantula hawk wasps are a subtype of solitary insect that live in underground burrows. They are known for their size and intensely painful stings. There are several species of this wasp under the ...

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 ...

Neither an arachnid nor a bird, this large wasp (there are over 130 known species) gets its confusing name from a fearsome habit of preying on tarantulas and other large spiders. Tarantula hawks are ...