The new species out of China is known to lock its prey away, alive but paralyzed, until its young have hatched.

The fronticarinalis cockroach wasp has a “bright metallic blue-green” body covered with “punctures,” or marks that look like tiny dents, researchers said. Ampulex fronticarinalis is one of ...

They are also a species-rich group, with one Superfamily alone, the chalcids, containing perhaps half a million species of usually very small and beautifully metallic wasps. Some are social insects ...