The female worker and male drone wasps aren’t so lucky ... First, the female wasp queen chews up wood fiber from trees, logs, plants and even fences, decks and wood patio furniture.

As larvae, these beetles feed on decaying wood and other plant material ... Large horn-like pinchers are what differentiate the male and female beetles. In the wild, they can live for up to two years ...

Male bison, sometimes known as bulls ... Other than the US, Canada has put wood bison on its endangered species list. Rutting season, or “the rut,” is the name of the bison breeding season, which ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs ... from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely ...

An extraordinary extinct wasp found preserved in amber may have used its abdomen to grasp other insects like a Venus flytrap before laying its eggs on them. “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped abdominal setup similar to the leaves of a Venus flytrap. The paddle-like lower ...

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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 ...

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, according to a new study published Thursday in BMC Biology. Researchers ...

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The species likely used its unique apparatus to trap its hosts, scientists said. An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...