Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other ...

Sand quarries, with their sunlit slopes and bare soils, have emerged as unlikely sanctuaries for rare pollinators.

One particularly creepy new discovery made by insect researchers reveals that a a newly-discovered species of wasp in the Amazon basically zombifies spiders to do its bidding. The research ...

hopes to find out which species of wasps live where in the UK, and provide some baseline data for an annual Big Wasp Survey over the coming years. As Dr Seirian Sumner (UCL) says: "The black and ...

The 619 new wasp species, including the tiny Dalek wasps ... that likely went extinct in the 1600s after the introduction of black rats. There is a new dinosaur, with blade-like spiked armour ...

There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in the UK, comprising a huge variety of solitary and social species. The majority are parasitoids, which have young that eat insects or spiders alive. But ...

A newly discovered species of wasp has been named after one of Harry Potter's greatest villains, Lucius Malfoy. New Zealand researcher Tom Saunders hopes to take the sting out of the tail of what ...

Kolkata: In a significant achievement for biodiversity research, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has identified a new species of parasitic wasp — Ceraphron initium — in Nagaland. The ...

A team of researchers from the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) and their collaborators have discovered five new species of the Darwin wasp ...