Large yellow and black wasps almost the size of a human thumb will soon be flying around the late Kentucky summer, hunting for cicadas. The cicada killer wasp is often mistaken for the so-called ...

Some spider-hunting wasps hunt pregnant spiders and deposit an egg onto their abdomen. The spider recovers and goes about its business, oblivious to the wasp egg attached to its backside.

A macro photographer has captured the moment a spider-hunting wasp paralysed its prey. Colin Edwards saw the wasp - which is rarely seen in Scotland - hunting a crab spider in his garden in ...

Aphid-hunting wasps can reproduce with or without sex, challenging previous assumptions. This unique flexibility could boost sustainable pest control if its hidden drawbacks can be managed.

A new insect has been discovered hiding in plain sight near a popular swimming spot in a Top End national park. To the native Australian resin bee, the mam-burrumurl, or ghost wasp, is a ghoulish ...

“Many wasps never attack humans,” Tibbetts told Salon. “They use their stinger only for hunting. The wasps that do sting for protection only attack when their lives or their nests are in danger.

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps ...

Modern Chrysidoidea wasps exhibit "a range of life histories" from parasitizing beetle larvae to laying eggs in stick insects and inhabiting solitary bee nests. The mid-Cretaceous period , spanning ...

THIS book may be described as a popularization anew of the writings of Fabre and the Peckhams on the habits of the solitary wasps, enlivened by a number of personal anecdotes not always about ...

Wasps can be aggressive and with the summer heat right around the corner, wasps are going to get busier. They will be hunting for food and trying to make nests, so you are definitely going to see ...

A macro photographer has captured the moment a spider-hunting wasp paralysed its prey. Colin Edwards saw the wasp - which is rarely seen in Scotland - hunting a crab spider in his garden in ...