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, ...

The toxins from this spider’s bite can cause tissue death. Bites from the brown recluse spider almost never result in death but can cause serious skin damage, nausea, and muscle pain.

In "Sting," a giant-spider-grows-in-Brooklyn thriller that's cheeky, bloody, and (most important) very gooey, Sting is the name given by Charlotte (Alyla Browne), a precocious tween, to the ...