Science finds its way into the most unexpected places. In this surprising case, it all began with the good eyesight of an eight-year-old boy, Hugo. The boy looked closely at a row ...

japonica injects venom and an egg into the host larva. The imaginal discs are degraded by venom proteins called IDDFs, which prevent the host from undergoing metamorphosis. The wasp larva consumes ...

2022). Upon hatching, the wasp larvae eat the insides of their hosts, pupate and emerge as adults from the remains, ready to repeat the cycle. This parasitic lifestyle imposes severe selective ...

A certain wasp species hijacks spiders to make them build a special cocoon web for the wasp larvae – which then eat the spider before settling in to pupate. Spiders aren’t entirely innocent ...

Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the inside out before bursting forth.

Material related to the Tuskegee Airmen, the historic Black aviators, and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, who helped pilot planes stateside during the war, was initially pulled into ...