| The name derives from tarantula or tarentula, a spider venom diffused in southern Europe. |
| The tarantula hawks sting their prey and use the dead tarantula's body to lay an egg in. |
| Gorb and colleagues discovered the tarantulas' silk-spinning abilities by examining glass plates scattered vertically in a tarantula terrarium. |
| We did see several tarantula hawks buzzing past our heads and running around on the ground. |
| The tarantula hawk bends its long abdomen forward and underneath the tarantula to deliver a paralytic venom with its mighty stinger. |
| With first graders on hands and knees, eyes peeled on the tarantula at hand, Trevino goes into his spiel on the life and times of spiders and other creepy crawlers. |
