A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

Spiders, wasps and zombies perhaps all feature prominently in people’s bad dreams, but a combo of all three? That’s some next-level nightmare fuel—and it actually comes straight out of the creepy-cool ...

Sitting on the deck on a summer afternoon, talking with friends. Nice in the shade. Pugnacious hummingbirds buzz past to make sure we know where we belong. A mosquito or two. Or three. One of my eyes ...

Wasps are annoying and sometimes painful for us humans but they are even more of a problem for insects that they prey upon. One particularly creepy new discovery made by insect researchers reveals ...

There's no real human equivalent for the zombified attack, one of the most jarring styles of survival in the animal kingdom. For proof of how perplexing these attacks are, consider what parasitoid ...

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Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave a special web to suspend the wasp pupa just before it finishes killing its spider host. William Eberhard, staff ...