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 ...

An orb-weaving spider species was specially chosen as the subject of a new study because the females emit sex hormones to ...

About the odd relationship between the tarantula and the giant wasp Pepsis. Although the tarantula can easily kill Pepsis, one species permits the wasp to sting it and lay an egg in its body ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

Male wasp spiders use the hairs on their legs to sniff out mates 1. A sense of taste has been documented in many spiders, but how most species smell airborne chemicals remains a mystery ...

However, Spider-Man 4's story might not be a direct continuation of that and could go back in time, copying a key detail from Ant-Man and the Wasp. Rumors point toward Gwen Stacy being in Spider ...

The Duston School in Northampton informed parents on Tuesday night. The spider is said to have a bite on a par with a wasp's sting. The extent of the outbreak was being assessed and the school was ...

Fen raft spider numbers have increased (Ben Andrew ... is staving off extinction with the help of a species of wasp. The bird specialises on feeding from one tree native to the island in the ...

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 ...