Six months after he published “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin wrote a letter to his friend, Asa Gray. He was troubled by a family of parasitic wasps, the ichneumonidae, that lays its eggs ...

A fear of wasps is relatively common among many. If it’s not the anticipatory buzz of nearby wings that gets you, it’s the thought of the giant stinger they wield. But what about their size? Compared ...

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 ...

Dementor wasps now exist thanks to museum patrons in Germany. Roughly 300 people voted to name an obscure wasp species from southeast Asia after the creatures from the "Harry Potter" novels. J.K.

Wasps and mantises are both formidable foes in the animal kingdom. But when it comes to attacking one another, only one ...