Amid the dusty hues of late summer, one sparkling jewel stands out. Fidgety as a nervous bridegroom, the dazzling cuckoo wasp is a kinetic burst of color as it hunts for bees in the summer heat ...

Cuckoo is an old synonym for crazy, probably because of the European common cuckoo’s call – a version of which is famously used in cuckoo clocks.But naturalists know cuckoos for a darke… ...

A new species of cuckoo wasp found in Norway mimics it's victim's behavior to attack the nest. It then lays eggs in the host's nest, which feast on the other offspring after birth.

An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species. ZooKeys , 2015; 548: 1 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.548.6164 Cite ...

The cuckoo wasp is an insect with above-average linguistic abilities. They are parasites, which means that they behave like cuckoos and lay their eggs in the nests of other bees and wasps.

A wasp without a sting seems like the result of genetic engineering experiments designed to create a species less vicious toward humans. Although no work of this type is under way, such a creature ...

For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nest of another wasp species, and the larvae feast on their new hosts’ young once they hatch.

It's a playbook adapted by many parasitic wasps, including modern-day cuckoo and bethylid wasps, to exploit insects. But no known wasp or any other insect does so with bizarre flaps quite like ...