There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in the UK, comprising a huge variety of solitary and social species. The majority are parasitoids, which have young that eat insects or spiders alive. But ...

A bizarre video has emerged of a wasp and a tarantula having a deadly wrestling match in Congress, Arizona. The footage, shot by a resident in August, shows a tarantula-hawk wasp attacking a ...

This year has secured some “major nature wins”, from spoonbill breeding success to an impressive comeback for one of the UK’s largest spiders ... of a species of wasp, and international ...

From the cardinal to the fen raft spider, BBC Countryfile has come up with a list of the six biggest spiders found in the UK and where to ... 2cm (body length). The wasp spider is commonly ...

There are 7,000 species of wasps living in the UK, nine of which build nests to house a colony ... The wasp will drag the tarantula to a specially dug hole, or even to the spider's own den, using that ...