It's all about strategy. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Sometimes, the best way to beat a complicated ambush is to lay a counterambush. A species of parasitic wasps uses ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – Spiders are perhaps the most feared invertebrates on the planet. Their eight long legs seem to move almost as if each of them has a mind of their own rather than belonging to one ...

Zombies are real – at least, in the insect world. The most famous example is a fungus that controls the minds and bodies of ants to help itself reproduce, but it's not the only thing to use the morbid ...

Staff and supporters of the Bohart Museum of Entomology unloading a truck full of wasp specimens. Photo by Steve Heydon. The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis recently received an unusual gift: ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

A terrifying new species of parasitic wasp that transforms its victims into suicidal zombies has been found in the Amazon. The nightmare bug turns spiders into helpless drones who abandon their own ...

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 ...

Viewers were paralyzed with fear. An Arizona biologist sent shudders across social media after showcasing the scary, incapacitating effects of a spider wasp’s sting — which can immobilize its victims ...

Deimos was the Greek god of terror, the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He was often accompanied into battle by twin brother Phobos, the god of fear. The latter god spawned the word phobia: an extreme or ...

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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 ...