Q:What are those black wasp-like things I see buzzing around close to the ground and do they sting? A: They are spider wasps (family pompilidae). Spider wasps fly low near the ground to hunt ...

The wasp will drag the tarantula back to its own burrow and lay an egg in its abdomen. Once the egg hatches, the larva inside will have huge heap of spider meat to feast one. It’s enough to make ...

That was until a couple years ago, when Florian Irwin, age 9, spotted a tiny wasp dragging a redback spider back to its nest in the boy's backyard in Beaconsfield, Western Australia.

The horrifying moment a spider hunting wasp lay its eggs inside a paralysed spider has been shared by a woman who likened it to "sci-fi". A poisoning its prey, the sinister creature drag s it into ...

The wasp is now being dubbed the "redback spider-hunting wasp" after a family in Beaconsfield, Western Australia, discovered one of them with a paralysed redback spider in their back yard.

Throughout Australia, a tiny wasp stings and paralyzes redback spiders before laying an egg that develops into a larva and slowly devours the dangerous arachnids, Australian researchers have ...

What goes around, comes around. For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmare of flies, wasps are surely the worst nightmare of many spiders.

The spider instantly enters an incapacitated stupor, and the wasp then gnaws off several of her legs. This, presumably, makes the victim easier to cart back to the nest.

A macro photographer has captured the moment a spider-hunting wasp paralysed its prey. Colin Edwards saw the wasp - which is rarely seen in Scotland - hunting a crab spider in his garden in ...

That was until a couple years ago, when Florian Irwin, age 9, spotted a tiny wasp dragging a redback spider back to its nest in the boy's backyard in Beaconsfield, Western Australia.