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...

Parasites are raising an army of zombie wasp queens to do their bidding, and it's a good thing...  ...ver the world by now! The parasites cause common wasps to believe that they are queens, rejecting their...  ...normal caste and acting as self serving loners in wasp society:...

She instantly recognized the handwriting on the en...  ...€™re a human parasite. You’re like this strange wasp I once saw on a nature show that leaches on to a...  ...hen moves on to some other unsuspecting host. The wasp ’s larvae eventually eat the caterpillar alive,...  ...r. Unlike the poor caterpillar e...

Most insects have wings that appear to be tran...  ...st black backgrounds. But once Janzen, who breeds wasps for his research on caterpillar-parasite symbiose...  ...black bodies. This study looked at the wings of wasps

Every week, Christie Lynn of Observation of a Ne...  ...ing eaten from inside after being infected with a parasitic wasp ; make sure to see all of the other entries. And a...  ...int of heart. Cotesia glomerata, like many other parasitic wasps , targets caterpillars to host its hungry little *strong class="matche...

National Geographic Channel and Channel 4 will pre...  ...oo, the lemon shark, the Emperor penguin, and the parasitic wasp . And one of the most jaw-dropping sequences is a...

There are over a million described species of inse...  ...flower and wait for an insect pollinator (bee or wasp ) to come along. They climb aboard the bee, burrow...

Ah, sex. Birds do it, bees do it. Wait a min...  ...yed by other species of animals, such as the male wasp spider](Image Credit: Veebl [Flickr])<!--ad1--...  ...aturalist back in the 1800s, who mistook it for a parasitic worm! Whiptail Lizard: Sex? No Thanks! We'...