A Syntretus perlmani wasp larva bursts from a fruit fly’s abdomen. “All known parasitoid wasps of flies attack and develop inside immature life stages,” study co-author and Mississippi State ...

Scientists discovered of a previously unknown species of wasp preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from the Kachin region of northern Myanmar. The findings were reported in a study published in the ...

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 ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in disguise. Analysis of wasps trapped in amber has revealed that the insect ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre creature inside a 99-million-year-old piece of amber from Myanmar. It's an ancient parasitic wasp with an abdomen that worked like a Venus flytrap. This terrifying ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set of flappy ...

You never know what surprises — some hair-raising — are waiting to be discovered when out and about in Penn's Woods. Not too long ago, my friend Stan Galenty and I had searched for plants and animals ...

There are two lookalike, large black and yellow wasps that we see in the Skiatook area, the cicada killer and the horse guard wasp. The cicada killer is 2 inches long, the horse guard wasp a third ...

Nature is red in tooth and claw — an adage that applies to the smallest creatures as well as the largest. Just ask one unfortunate half-bee, who was gnawed in two by a yellowjacket wasp in a new video ...