"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one ...

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, ...

Sirenobethylus charybdis lived nearly 99 million years ago and used its unique abdominal apparatus to trap prey during ...

For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nest of another wasp species, and the larvae feast on their new hosts’ young once they hatch. A fossil enthusiast ...

Cuckoo wasps and bethylid wasps are modern-day parasitoids within the same superfamily, Chrysidoidea, according to the paper. A unique pattern of veins in the hind wing of the extinct S.

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 ...

These include cuckoo wasps, the larvae of which live on hosts ... says Manuel Brazidec at the University of Rennes in France. “What I find extraordinary is that the abdomen of Sirenobethylus ...

If this is the case, sirenobethylus charybdis may have written the playbook that cuckoo wasps follow today. Named after the wily cuckoo bird, these emerald-coloured critters lay their eggs in ...

For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nest of another wasp species, and the larvae feast on their new hosts’ young once they hatch. A fossil enthusiast ...

charybdis indicates the wasps were parasitoids — insects whose larvae live as parasites and eventually kill their hosts. Modern-day parasitoids of the superfamily Chrysidoidea include cuckoo ...