This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of another type of insect, parasitoids, laid inside of them. Parasitoid wasps and flies use their long ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a student was feeding flies to the flagged plants. The researchers raise these insects on food spiked with unusual ...

Pelsis Group, a manufacturer and supplier of pest control solutions has launched the Digital Halo. Digital Halo is an ...

The answer is split into two: the highest we’ve found a flying insect, and the highest we’ve proven an insect could ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ... essentially flying fecal pellets. While most coprolites look ...