For peacock spiders and birds of paradise ... Instead, the researchers propose that the wasps’ ultra-black is related to protection from predators. Velvet ants are already known as ...

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 ...

One of my students at Sheffield Hallam University sent me this stunning picture of a very large, and in the UK, very rare ...

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 ...

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 ...