Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The emerald cockroach wasp or jewel wasp is a solitary wasp of the family Ampulicidae.© RWK007/Shutterstock.com The post The Wasp ...

On Wednesday, I posted about a parasitic wasp that turns a caterpillar into both a living incubator and a zombie-like bodyguard for its larvae. Well, it seems to be a bumper week for wasp research; ...

Jewel wasps are among the most disturbing parasites in the animal kingdom, tiny insects capable of turning cockroaches into living zombies through a horrifying form of biological mind control . After ...

This week, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reported that 139 new species were discovered in the Greater Mekong region last year, including a species of wasp that can drag a cockroach to its death. Most ...

The natural world can be beautiful and transcendent. It can also be downright merciless, and almost medieval in its strategies for extracting resources. The emerald jewel wasp and its method of ...