Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The emerald cockroach wasp or jewel wasp is a solitary wasp of the family Ampulicidae.© RWK007/Shutterstock.com The post The Wasp ...

On Wednesday, I posted about a parasitic wasp that turns a caterpillar into both a living incubator and a zombie-like bodyguard for its larvae. Well, it seems to be a bumper week for wasp research; ...

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The species is described as having a blue-green body with a “purple luster,” researchers said. Photo by Charlie Chi via Unsplash In nature, animal parents can range from being doting and ...

It's Halloween, so prepare to be terrified. And no, this column has nothing to do with Open Enrollment Season. Instead, it relates to the emerald cockroach wasp, a wisp of an insect that you may have ...

The jewel wasp targets cockroaches with two carefully placed stings, including one directly into the brain that alters the cockroach’s behavior and leaves it unable to make normal decisions. The wasp ...

If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp. Females of the species Ampulex compressa, known also as emerald cockroach wasps, are less than an inch long and decked out in ...

This week, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reported that 139 new species were discovered in the Greater Mekong region last year, including a species of wasp that can drag a cockroach to its death. Most ...