Meet Clistopyga crassicaudata, an Amazonian wasp that’s only 9.8 millimeters long, yet armed with a hellacious-looking stinger that’s half its body length.

SOUTH AMERICA (CBS Local) - Most of us have a healthy fear of wasps. Now most of us can also be thankful we don't share a habitat with a newly discovered wasp species found in the Amazon that has ...

How big is it? There are plenty of parasitoid wasps who engage in this demented behavior. But the Clistopyga crassicaudata is different because of the sheer size and girth of its stinger.

Scientists just discovered a parasitic wasp with a monstrous stinger almost as big as its body. By Laura Yan Published: Jul 08, 2018 3:56 PM EDT. Kari Kaunisto.

CNN asked Sääksjärvi how big, hypothetically, the Clistopyga crassicaudata's stinger would be if the wasp were the size of the average human man. For science. "It would more than 50 percent of ...

CNN asked Sääksjärvi how big, hypothetically, the Clistopyga crassicaudata's stinger would be if the wasp were the size of the average human man. For science. "It would more than 50 percent of ...

How big is it? There are plenty of parasitoid wasps who engage in this demented behavior. But the Clistopyga crassicaudata is different because of the sheer size and girth of its stinger.

Have you ever seen a wasp and thought, “Gee, I wonder how we can make these non-pollinating, human-hating demon insects even worse?” If so, you’re in luck. A group of scientists from the ...