A rare species of jumping spider, Pilia malenadu, has been rediscovered after a century of absence. Females were recorded for ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

This release is also available in German. The fact that female wasp spiders have numerous sexual contacts is something which their male partners cannot prevent. What they can do, however, is ensure ...

Female wasps have a long, needle-like organ called an ovipositor, used for piercing plant tissues or the hard exoskeletons of insects, and to lay her eggs. In 2015, Niclas Fritzén and Ilari Sääksjärvi ...

COLUMBIA, SC — They are the stuff of nightmares — huge, creepy, crawling (and flying) bugs — and this is the time of year when you’ll find them in large numbers. But don’t worry, these critters are ...

Wasps are annoying and sometimes painful for us humans but they are even more of a problem for insects that they prey upon. One particularly creepy new discovery made by insect researchers reveals ...

It sounds like the plot of the world's tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a 'social' spider into a zombie that abandons its colony to do ...