Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A new species of wasp, no bigger than a grain of dust, was discovered at the University of Hawaii Manoa campus. Entomologists with UH’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human ...

Texas is among the hottest states in America. And where there’s heat, there’s insects. Wasps are no exception. If you’ve ever been stung by a wasp, the first whir of a buzz may send you running inside ...

Mind control is a phenomenon confined to daydreams and the movies. Or maybe not! In a peaceful field in the French countryside a parasitic tango between a wasp and a virus leaves the wasp, Leptopilina ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered in America, and it seems to channel some of the well-known features of the xenomorph from the popular Alien sci-fi franchise. How exactly do these horror ...

When the last wasp nibbles on the jam bread in late summer, many people wonder: Where do these creatures actually go in the ...

Some undiscovered species are hiding right under our noses. Ormyrus labotus, a tiny parasitoid wasp known to science since 1843, has long been considered a generalist with more than 65 host species.