Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

Jonas Vegele/ Shutterstock Our wasp expert Dr Gavin Broad, says, ‘Wasps are generally apex predators - so if they’re not doing well, it indicates that there is something wrong with the world.’ Wasps ...

Spotted lanternflies have wreaked havoc on U.S. agriculture since their arrival in 2014, but Penn State researchers may have ...

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“Wasp population dynamics tend to be cyclical, so a low year is followed by a high year – and this year the stars have ...

Female velvet ants spend almost their entire lives alone, searching for places to lay their eggs. One big challenge of this nomadic lifestyle is the constant risk of being ambushed by would-be ...

Monarch butterflies are important to a healthy ecosystem, but their existence in your garden is threatened by an all-too-familiar predator: wasps. While wasps are also important to the natural ...

Researchers from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) have released 2,500 parasitic wasps into an orchard in the Huon ...

Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...