One of my students at Sheffield Hallam University sent me this stunning picture of a very large, and in the UK, very rare ...

Spiders, meanwhile, have no chemical defenses and are loners, which makes them vulnerable to being hunted by larger spiders, wasps and birds ... antennae and also mimic ant behaviors, Poinar ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...