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

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 ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...