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 ...

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 ...

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 ...