Imagine a predator that doesn’t just kill its prey, but performs a high-stakes “brain surgery” to turn it into a willing servant. Meet the jewel wasp (Ampulex compressa), a shimmering, emerald-hued ...

Forestry officials in the US are releasing non-native species of parasitic wasps into our forests by the thousands, but there ...

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