A research team led by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology scientist Thomas van de Kamp has found ancient parasitoid wasps lurking inside 55 mineralized...
A bizarre new species of wasp, named Dolichogenidea xenomorph, has been discovered in Australia.
Dolichogenidea xenomorph. Image credit: Erinn Fagan-Jeffries.
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Genetic scientists from the University of California, Riverside, and the W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges,...
An enigmatic wingless parasitic wasp has been found preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, a new study says.
Aptenoperissus burmanicus lived at the...
An international team of scientists has described a previously unknown species of wasp from South Africa and has named it Conobregma bradpitti, after the...
A team of biologists and robotic researchers from Australia and Germany has solved a mystery of how wasps make sure that they find their way home.
The...
Three inch (7 cm) long herbivorous wasps flew through the landscapes of what is now British Columbia some 53 million years ago, according to Dr Alexandr...
The larvae of the parasitic wasp Reclinervellus nielseni turn their host spiders Cyclosa argenteoalba into drugged navvys, to modify the web structure...
A feathered dinosaur from North and South Dakota, a species of pufferfish from Japan, a cartwheeling spider from Morocco, a ‘walking stick’ from Vietnam,...
An immensely long (7–8 mm) and slender (15 μm) ovipositor of the parasitic fig wasp Apocrypta westwoodi is equipped with a sharp, zinc-coated tip, ready...
Entomologists have discovered 24 new species of wasps that mummify caterpillars, several were named after famous people including Jimmy Fallon, John Stewart,...
A team of entomologists from Italy and China has described nine new species of wasps in the genus Cleptes.
Cleptes helanshanus. Image credit: Zai-fu Xu.
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Entomologists from Utah State University have described two new gorgeous species in the rare wasp genus Abernessia.
Abernessia giga, female. Image credit:...
Entomologists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have described 277 new species of braconid wasps in the tribe Heterospilini.
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An international team of entomologists has described a new, bizarre species of wasp that rides on the back of damselflies before laying eggs inside damselfly...
Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...
Entomologists have described three new species in the parasitoid wasp genus Cystomastacoides. One of them, Cystomastacoides kiddo, was named after the...
Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.
This is the only fossil ever discovered...
A study by Spanish scientists has revealed that paper wasps, Polistes dominula, advertize the size of their poison glands to potential predators.
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