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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The wasp lays an egg inside the spider using an ovipositor - a spike from its tail which is often mistaken as a sting. The larvae then takes about three weeks to hatch before feeding off the spider.

Now the research team in Galway intends to study what effect the invasive species is having on native spiders. The false widow is said to have a bite on a par with a wasp's sting. But some people ...