Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bootanomyia dorsalis is native to Europe, but has been found in multiple locations across North America. Native to Europe, B.

Despite being completely non-threatening to humans, the golden orb weaver spider (Plesiometa argyra) has acid-yellow spots and pincer-like legs, and is as broad as a human fist. In other words, it ...

The jewel wasp uses one of the most extreme parasitic strategies found in nature. After manipulating a cockroach’s behavior, ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in disguise. Analysis of wasps trapped in amber has revealed that the insect ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp's abdomen boasts a set of flappy ...

The newly found wasp appears to be common in the eastern United States, and inflicts Lynchian body horror onto its hosts. Reading time 3 minutes Adult flies in the eastern United States have been ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A particularly gruesome example of insect zombification occurs when parasitic wasps lay their ...

Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like ...

A bee in your bonnet has nothing on a wasp in your belly. Mississippi scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies, Nature ...

Two species of Bootanomyia dorsalis wasps introduced to North America from Europe A, B variation in the extent of wing infumation from a single collection of B. dorsalis sp. 2 from Neuroterus ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilise their prey. Research, ...

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