A bee in your bonnet has nothing on a wasp in your belly. Mississippi scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies, Nature ...

Scientists in Mississippi have uncovered a bizarre new wasp species that performs a chilling egg-laying ritual. This wasp, named Syntretus perlmani, was recently discovered by a team from Mississippi ...

The jewel wasp is a parasite with a method so precise it can turn a cockroach into a living host without killing it immediately. By targeting the nervous system, it changes the roach’s behavior and ...

The wasps will use their bodies to farm their young in a process that is straight out of a horror movie. These terrifying wasps behave like something straight out of a sci-fi horror film, right in our ...

Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like “horror,” “vampire,” and “nightmare.” These insects combine outsized ...