A bee-fly from a bumblebee? By being able to name something, we develop a connection with it and crave knowledge about it—be it for wasps or weeds. Nurture. With names and knowledge come care ...

A newly identified wasp that buzzed among the dinosaurs had a bit of a unique way of catching prey. Researchers studied 16 wasps frozen in 99-million-year-old Kachin amber in northern Myanmar ...

This ancient parasitic wasp's back end boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles - resembling "a small bear trap attached to the end of it," says study co-author Lars Vilhelmsen from ...

One of the oddest parental strategies on display in nature — like something out of a horror movie — is that of the adult cockroach wasp, a new species of which was discovered in China ...