Female bees and wasps use modified ovipositors, formerly used in egg laying, to sting their attackers, including people. Now, a study in Current Biology on December 19 shows that male mason wasps use ...

Predation can lead to the evolution of defensive devices in prey animals. Genitalia, which are used for mating between males and females, have rarely been considered to function as an important ...

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 ...

When cicadas begin to emerge in late June, they're sure to be followed by one of their most prominent predators: the cicada killer. Cicada killers are large wasps, according to Texas A&M University's ...

We humans have our fair share of parasites, some annoying, some dangerous. Common parasitic predators include bed bugs, lice, roundworms, tapeworms and ticks. Some of these and others can cause ...