The wasps, which lived almost 99 million years ago, might have launched backward at their insect targets, then grasped them within their Venus flytrap-like abdomens. “It’s unlike anything I’ ...

So you look for analogs in modern insect fauna. Do we have anything among wasps or other groups that looks like this?” he said. “And there’s no real analog within insects. We had to go all ...

Holotype of Sirenobethylus charybdis. Qiong Wu The morphology of the wasps indicates that they were parasitoids, or insects whose larvae live as parasites inside their hosts before eventually ...

There are numerous ways to report Asian hornet sightings, with the easiest being through the Asian Hornet Watch app. You can ...

It's a playbook adapted by many parasitic wasps, including modern-day cuckoo and bethylid wasps, to exploit insects. But no known wasp or any other insect does so with bizarre flaps quite like ...