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.

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 ...

A terrified farm worker was stuck on a tree while harvesting wasps to sell. Songkran, 43, had climbed the 23ft eucalyptus tree to reach a hive during peak wasp hunting season in Bueang Kan ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...