These Ants Can Consume Up to 500,000 Prey Per Day
There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, ...
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Do wasps serve a purpose?
We have all dealt with wasps, known for terrorizing swimming pools, picnics, and other outdoor activities with their alarming appearance and painful sting. Many people annoyed by their ...
Creature preserved in 99 million-year-old amber was ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say
A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...
ECOVIEWS: Velvet ants can deliver a painful sting
The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may ...
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6 Things That Attract Wasps to Your Yard—and What to Do Next
Wasps do a little bit of pollinating, but they serve other purposes in your garden, eating pests like aphids, beetles, and ...
‘Metallic’ creature that turns prey into zombie surrogate for babies is a new species
The new species out of China is known to lock its prey away, alive but paralyzed, until its young have hatched.
Parasitic Wasp That Caught Prey in 'Venus Flytrap' Body Discovered in Amber
Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...
Previously unknown wasp species with Venus flytrap-like abdomen found in ancient amber
Sirenobethylus charybdis lived nearly 99 million years ago and used its unique abdominal apparatus to trap prey during ...
Ancient parasitic 'Venus flytrap' wasp found preserved in amber
An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...