Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps ...

Wasps commonly nest in a wide variety of sites ... have the following characteristics: Range in size from less than 1/2 to 1 inch. Very fuzzy in appearance. Most species are black and yellow although ...

These large solitary wasps are also known as Giant Cicada Killers or Sand Hornets. This last common name is a misnomer because they are not true hornets. Despite their very large size, dangerous ...

The first complete 3D reconstruction of the compound eye of a minute wasp species sheds light on the nuts and bolts of size reduction.

including the Great Black Wasp, Katydid Hunter, and Steel-blue Cricket Hunter. The latter two names are given to it because it notably hunts the katydids and steel blue crickets. Even though their ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

IT is a low-key intuition, not spiteful or malicious, but pervasive: in the minds of most Americans the incoming Nixon Administration seems to represent the comeback of the Wasp: the white Anglo ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

As you can see in the video, the helpless wasp continues to look for a way out. But it remains stuck. When the insect is completely enclosed in the trap, the hinged lobes close so tightly that nothing ...

Hornets, yellow jackets, Polistes, mud daubers, and the cicada killer are all wasps, a group of beneficial insects that attack and destroy other insects found around homes and in gardens. Wasps, ...

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...