In an excerpt from his new book, entomologist Fran...  ...flies also follow, to feed on the bird droppings. Parasitic wasps also follow to find the scurrying insects. Other...

Humans have a long history of importing invasive s...  ...egon Department of Agriculture is raising samurai wasps to help control the invasive brown marmorated sti...  ...struggled with the decision for so long that the wasps made their way to the US without being invited an...  ...way, so they decided to just g...

The emerald jewel wasp is a parasite that stings a cockroach to turn it...  ...h's antennae, then leads it by the antenna to the wasp 's nest, where it lays an egg inside the roach. Th...  ...cockroaches have developed a defense against the wasp that resembles a martial arts fil...

There are many species of parasitic wasps , many of which we've posted. But even parasites c...  ...of parasites, in this case a plant that feeds on wasps that feed on plants. The oak leaf gall wasp invades oak trees and induces them to develop gal...  ...m to develop galls,...

The world is a scary place, but the things we are...  ...e die each year in Japan due to stings from these wasps .You may be thinking, "well at least they're in As...  ...y looking, but when they are a specific kind that parasitically live in the fish's mouths and serve in place of i...

We saw the beautiful microphotography of the 2015 Nikon Small World Photography Competition only a couple of months ago. Today, Nikon has announced the winners of its other competition, called Small World in Motion. This...

Just in time for Halloween, we’ve got some teeny tiny horrors that would make your skin crawl… if they were large enough to see, that is! We're talking about the images in the category of Creepy Crawlies from the Nik...

Scientific research can read like a horror story w...  ...are dissecting the sinister attacks of the jewel wasp , Ampulex compressa. The wasp stings a cockroach, transforming it into a passiv...  ...roach, transforming it into a passive zombie. The wasp can then walk its drugged...

If you think it's weird that plants...  ...chemicals that both repel the aphids and attract parasitic wasps that are aphids' natural predators....

Image: Oregon State University En...  ...as going to make a meal out of a tiny parasitic wasp , but never quite got to it,” said George Po...  ...storical Biology. “This was a male wasp that suddenly found itself trapped in a...  ...ider web,” Poinar said. “This was the *s...