A new study shows that a mother digger wasp(Ammophila pubescens) can remember the locations and feeding history of up to nine ...

The mother wasp somehow knows whether the egg she has just laid is a male or a female, and will bring extra cicadas to a ...

If the female wasp arrives in a male fig—also known as a caprifig—she lays her eggs and then dies. Her eggs hatch, with blind, flightless male wasps hatching first.

These wasps may be inhabited by a bacteria, Wolbachia, which turns nearly all wasps in a population female. It turns out they force male eggs to become female thanks to sex — determining genes ...

After the female wasps finish building the first few cells, they lay tiny, whitish eggs that hatch within a few days. They feed chewed-up caterpillars to their wasp larvae.

She remained close to other WASPs and was a member of the 99s, a foundation for female pilots formed in part by Amelia Earhart. As of press time, she was still living at age 103 and had a birthday ...

Female braconid wasps inject their eggs under the skin of the hornworm. At the same time, they also inject a virus called polydnavirus. This virus works against the natural defense system of the ...

Imagine this: One fine day, you’re working in the garden when a giant female wasp suddenly buzzes upon you and delivers a punishing sting before you know what hit you.

After mating, female wasps will select a site and begin digging a burrow, normally under sidewalks, roadsides and embankments. They often choose lawns in populated areas, said the Smithsonian.

Scientists uncovered over a dozen female wasps preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from the Kachin region in northern Myanmar. The wasp's flaps and teeth-like hairs resemble the structure of ...

Aphid-hunting wasps can reproduce with or without sex, challenging previous assumptions. This unique flexibility could boost sustainable pest control if its hidden drawbacks can be managed.

Scientists have shed new light on the evolution of an important species of wasp—and believe that the findings could help improve the effectiveness of natural pest control.