The wasp that kills tarantulas and lives all over Arizona...I'll take a large NOPE with that. Have a fear of spiders, creepy crawlers or basically anything that is scarier in the bug world than ...

PHOENIX — The wasp that kills tarantulas and lives all over Arizona...I'll take a large NOPE with that. Have a fear of spiders, creepy crawlers or basically anything that is scarier in the bug world ...

A tarantula hawk wasp is one of the largest wasps in the world. They are aptly named because they inject tarantulas with their venom, which immobilizes the spiders and allows the wasps to drag them ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The tarantula hawk is known to have one of the most painful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona is home to around 30 species of tarantulas, but there's one fearless predator that's making headlines— the tarantula hawk.