This past weekend, I had a glimpse into one of the most fascinating and bizarre (also gruesome) animal behaviors I have ever witnessed. I was out walking the dog and happened to notice a large wasp ...

The Glyptapanteles wasp, also widely known as the voodoo wasp, impregnates a caterpillar with about 80 eggs at a time. Once the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae feed on the caterpillar’s body fluids, which ...

While attempting to research the disbursement patterns of caterpillars that would eventually turn into butterflies, Finnish researchers inadvertently introduced three parasitic wasps, and they are ...