A redback spider-hunting wasp (Agenioideus nigricornis) dragging its paralyzed prey back to its nest. Throughout Australia, a tiny wasp stings and paralyzes redback spiders before laying an egg that ...

Researchers say a small native wasp that scientists had forgotten about for more than 200 years is now making a name for itself -- as a predator of Australia's most common dangerous spider, the ...

While we typically think of spiders as the ones eating insects, spider wasps (members of the family Pompilidae) prey on spiders. This video captures a showdown between a tarantula and one of these ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

A wasp collected on Captain Cook’s voyage in 1770, but largely forgotten since, has been found to prey on redback spiders. NOTORIOUS REDBACK SPIDERS are one of the more dangerous species in Australia, ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Deimos was the Greek god of terror, the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He was often accompanied into battle by twin brother Phobos, the god of fear. The latter god spawned the word phobia: an extreme or ...

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 announced ...