If you've never heard of the tarantula hawk before, you probably want to keep it that way. For those unfamiliar, the tarantula hawk is a wasp that - no joke - actively hunts tarantulas. Tarantula ...

It's been wet in Texas this year — exceptionally wet, as a matter of fact. With record amounts of rain, Texas is more than a little hot, green and rife with happy insects. Take the tarantula hawk, for ...

Frog eggs attract hungry predators, and this tiny father can only defend them from the smallest attackers. Just above him lives a tiger tarantula, a powerful ambush hunter. Together, they form an ...

Bright colors in the animal kingdom usually mean danger. And the bright colors of the tarantula hawk definitely mean danger, not only because of the powerful sting that it possesses, but danger to its ...

Watch out, arachnophobes; you’re about to be seeing a lot more tarantulas around. As the weather begins to cool and the season for spooky decorations approaches, brown tarantula mating season is also ...

One entomologist described tarantulas as the "puppies of the spider world." Tarantulas are coming out in droves in Northern California just in time for Halloween. But the gargantuan spiders aren't ...

A newly discovered tarantula sports a black coat that is as dark and brooding as its celebrity namesake: the renowned singer Johnny Cash. Tarantulas, the hairy spiders that stole movie scenes and won ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of a "cosmic tarantula": the Tarantula Nebula. The nebula, officially called 30 Doradus, earned its spider nickname because "the region ...

"You can't order the tarantula today," the man behind the counter at Bull City Burger and Brewery said to the front of the lunch rush line. Yes, Thursday's tarantula burger was already spoken for, ...