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, ...

Aaron Phoenix, 37, began accumulating them in the summer of 2021 to help with his mental health and believes he was “born to save spiders.” He keeps the spiders across two locations — his ...

The large, hairy spiders are often depicted as dangerous but Jim Mason, of the Great Plains Nature Center, said the spiders are generally docile. Tarantulas rear up on their back legs when they ...