A newly identified parasitic wasp, compared to an “alien” predator, was found entirely by chance. Its ability to infect adult ...

Wasps have generally earned themselves a bad reputation ... more people are reading our articles to learn about the challenges facing the natural world. Our future depends on nature, but we are not ...

These are female figs that produce seeds and are the ones we typically consume. The Fig Wasp: Tiny Architects of Pollination Fig wasps, belonging to the family Agaonidae, are incredibly ...

The distant world WASP-121b is already bizarre ... The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. SEE ALSO: A dramatic total lunar eclipse is coming. You don't want to ...

Despite its name, the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) is not only implicated in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a rare genetic disease characterized by low platelet count, eczema and recurrent ...

The Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) family lie at a signalling node. A wide variety of upstream signals cause activation of WASP family members which then bind to the ARP2/3 actin ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." WASP-121 b is the definition of an "extreme" exoplanet — it's so hot that it rains droplets of liquid iron.

About the odd relationship between the tarantula and the giant wasp Pepsis. Although the tarantula can easily kill Pepsis, one species permits the wasp to sting it and lay an egg in its body ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

until they're ready to turn into adult wasps and leave. The host is doomed to die. Their gruesome nature actually makes many chalcid wasps useful to us. As natural enemies of pest insects, hundreds of ...