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, ...

Oftentimes, they only bite or sting as a defense to help them get away. With something like the tarantula hawk, it was pretty intense. It was like an electrical shock into my arm. It actually put ...

A pilot on an Iberia Airlines flight to Madrid was bitten by a spider mid-flight. The crew members suspect it was a tarantula ...

A flight in Spain managed to land safely after a pilot with an extreme allergy to spider venom was bitten by a tarantula mid-flight ... a severe reaction to the bite and was later confirmed ...

Schmidt has been searching for bugs all around the world and has consciously experienced insect bites. His efforts ... for the light switch.” The tarantula hawk, with a score of 4, is far ...