A bee in your bonnet has nothing on a wasp in your belly ... Moore initially couldn’t believe his eyes, saying: “If you dissect thousands of flies, you will see some things that are strange ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

Scientists have accidentally discovered a previously unknown species of parasitic wasp that grows inside the bodies of living flies before bursting out of their stomachs like a xenomorph from the ...

Chris Allen didn't pull any punches to listening high schoolers when he described America's discriminatory climate in the ...

There are two species of red paper wasps in Oklahoma, the fine-backed red paper wasp (Polistes carolina) and the coarse-backed red paper wasp (Polistes rubiginosus). I believe the former is the ...

Wasps have generally earned themselves a bad reputation. But despite their occasional aggression, these insects play an important role in the ecosystem. There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in ...

Q: What is the difference between a yellow jacket and a wasp? “Yellow jackets and hornets and wasps in general -- they are meat eaters, they are carnivores.” “They go after insects -- they ...

As summer winds down and Canadians try to soak up the last warm days with outdoor picnics and barbecues, there’s an unwelcome guest that seems to be everywhere: wasps. These buzzing insects are ...

Parasitoid wasps, which have larvae that grow in or on other organisms and eventually kill their hosts, are widely recognized for their vast biodiversity and fascinating ecology. Syntretus ...

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive. When you purchase through ...

For both species, photographs were taken nine days post-oviposition by the same female wasp. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07919-7 ...

A team of biologists recently discovered a new parasitic wasp species in the United States that has a unique way of infecting its hosts. Syntretus perlmani lays its eggs in the bodies of living ...