When the wasp larva hatches, it hijacks the spider’s behavior — maybe through a bite that delivers a chemical cocktail ...

An old wasp is getting a new name in honor of beloved broadcaster David Attenborough. Attenborough, known for narrating ...

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 years old on Friday, and scientists honored the milestone by naming a newly classified ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A team of researchers at Mississippi State University has identified a ...

The tiny, iridescent parasitoid wasp is the latest insect shown to be a cryptic complex of genetically distinct species. By Sabrina Imbler The tiny, iridescent Ormyrus labotus always seemed suspicious ...

While attempting to research the disbursement patterns of caterpillars that would eventually turn into butterflies, Finnish researchers inadvertently introduced three parasitic wasps, and they are ...

This week in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology, scientists Simon Segar, James Cook, Derek Dunn, and colleagues at the University of Reading have found that during mutualism, a cooperative ...

Taxonomists from London's Natural History Museum who named the Chilean species were inspired by the lifework of the famous ...