Wasps seen piercing the mouth or other parts of tree frogs with their sharp weapon when being attacked Kipling might well have believed that the female of the species is more deadly than the male, but ...

Nature is all about survival of the fittest. Creatures have to constantly adapt in order to live in a world filled with predators trying to kill them. This might mean growing hard shells like turtles ...

Male wasps use sharp spines on their genitals to attack and sting tree frogs in an attempt to avoid being swallowed, new research has shown. In the past, genitals have rarely been considered to have ...

Scientists have identified 32 new species of wasp, creatures that use scary predatory skills to survive and grow in different environments. The new species, discovered in tropical regions around the ...

Invasive "harlequin" ladybirds are being attacked by native parasitic wasps and flies, scientists said today as they urged members of the public to help them investigate the phenomenon. The harlequin ...

Another spider-hunting wasp, a female Golden Hunting wasp, drags a paralysed spider to its nest. Wiki Commons/Tony Wills A new wasp species uses the bodies of dead ants to protect its nest, ...

A new type of praying mantis that behaves and moves erratically like a wasp has been discovered near the Amazon river in Peru. Researchers at Cleveland Museum of Natural History say the mantis, which ...

It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea – and wasps. A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects that exist only to make our lives a misery. But with ...

Delivering the T.N. Ananthakrishnan Birth Centenary Lecture on “You are how much you eat: Caste and nutrition in the Indian paper wasp, Ropalidia marginata”, Dr. Gadagkar said that for a long time the ...

A traditional bane of picnics and widely regarded as malign, the common wasp is actually quite industrious and a useful destroyer of insect pests – but try telling that to little Roderick when his ...