The wasp is now being dubbed the "redback spider-hunting wasp" after a family in Beaconsfield, Western Australia, discovered one of them with a paralysed redback spider in their back yard.

Q:What are those black wasp-like things I see buzzing around close to the ground and do they sting? A: They are spider wasps (family pompilidae). Spider wasps fly low near the ground to hunt ...

The wasp is now being dubbed the "redback spider-hunting wasp" after a family in Beaconsfield, Western Australia, discovered one of them with a paralyzed redback spider in their back yard.

That was until a couple years ago, when Florian Irwin, age 9, spotted a tiny wasp dragging a redback spider back to its nest in the boy's backyard in Beaconsfield, Western Australia.

The wasp will drag the tarantula back to its own burrow and lay an egg in its abdomen. Once the egg hatches, the larva inside will have huge heap of spider meat to feast one. It’s enough to make ...

Some spider-hunting wasps hunt pregnant spiders and deposit an egg onto its abdomen. The spider recovers and goes about its business, oblivious to the wasp egg attached to its backside.

Some spider-hunting wasps hunt pregnant spiders and deposit an egg onto their abdomen. The spider recovers and goes about its business, oblivious to the wasp egg attached to its backside.

Large yellow and black wasps almost the size of a human thumb will soon be flying around the late Kentucky summer, hunting for cicadas. The cicada killer wasp is often mistaken for the so-called ...

A macro photographer has captured the moment a spider-hunting wasp paralysed its prey. Colin Edwards saw the wasp - which is rarely seen in Scotland - hunting a crab spider in his garden in ...

A terrified farm worker was stuck on a tree while harvesting wasps to sell. Songkran, 43, had climbed the 23ft eucalyptus tree to reach a hive during peak wasp hunting season in Bueang Kan ...

The wasp is now being dubbed the "redback spider-hunting wasp" after a family in Beaconsfield, Western Australia, discovered one of them with a paralyzed redback spider in their back yard.