Holotype of Sirenobethylus charybdis. Qiong Wu The morphology of the wasps indicates that they were parasitoids, or insects whose larvae live as parasites inside their hosts before eventually ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp's abdomen ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilize their prey. Research ...

Qiong Wu View gallery - 3 images If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in disguise.

A Venus Flytrap Wasp? Scientists Uncover an Ancient Insect Preserved in Amber That Snatched Its Prey NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus ...

The scale bar is 0.5 millimeters in the top row and 0.2 millimeters in the bottom row. Wu, Qiong et al., BMC Biology, 2025 For the study, scientists examined 16 female specimens of the wasp ...

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