Popping out of the heads of its hosts seemed strange enough. Then scientists discovered something even stranger. By JoAnna Klein To deposit its eggs, the parasitic oak gall wasp pierces a leaf or stem ...

A new species of wasp discovered in the southeastern United States has a survival strategy that might make your head explode. Because that’s literally what it does to another kind of wasp. (Photo: ...

A team of researchers from the University of Iowa and Rice University has found that crypt-keeper wasps parasitize multiple species of gall wasp. In their paper published in the journal Biology ...

University of Iowa Forbes Lab researchers documented evidence of a parasitic wasp called Euderus set that can use multiple species of the insect as its host. UI Ph.D. candidate Anna Ward worked on the ...

Males of a species of parasitic wasp can identify potential mates from chemicals they give off, even before the females have emerged from within their host fly. Jewel wasps (Nasonia vitripennis) are ...

As Halloween approaches, decorations of ghosts, vampires, and witches pattern walls and windows. But for William Eberhard, a staff scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and ...