If you saw a tarantula hawk, you'd probably run away. This man gets up close and personal with them. Coyote Peterson is a YouTube star who wants to educate his 8 million subscribers about - among ...

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, ...

If you saw a tarantula hawk, you'd probably run away ... and what it's like being a human test bed for these stings. His new book, "Coyote Peterson's Brave Adventures: Wild Animals in a Wild ...

to a four (the level of a tarantula hawk wasp). The yellow jackets that were likely the first stings many of us experienced just rate a two. The scale, which Schmidt developed after getting stung ...

Aside from their namesake behavior of hunting tarantulas, tarantula hawks primarily feed on nectar, according to TPWD. They are not usually aggressive toward humans, and will not sting unless ...