Discover how the Emerald Cockroach Wasp masters cockroach zombification to ensure its offspring's survival. Uncover the secrets of this wasp's behavior. The first she delivers to the roach’s ...

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 ...

A group of 300 museum visitors voted to name a new species of cockroach wasps the Ampulex Dementor. The name is inspired by the Dementors from the magical world of Harry Potter, Mugglenet reports. The ...

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; ...

The cockroach is hailed as the indestructible creepy-crawly due to its ability to withstand a nuclear explosion. But it couldn't survive when it fought a wasp to death on a dining table in Konstanz, ...

It's getting all Harry Potter and the Walking Dead in the insect world where scientists have discovered that dementor wasps are turning cockroaches into zombies. Ampulex dementor, a wasp named after ...