May 13, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...

Mar 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists have described three new species in the parasitoid wasp genus Cystomastacoides. One of them, Cystomastacoides kiddo, was named after the...

Oct 9, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web. This is the only fossil ever discovered...

Aug 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A study by Spanish scientists has revealed that paper wasps, Polistes dominula, advertize the size of their poison glands to potential predators. Paper...

Mar 24, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers has discovered a new and unusual wasp species during an expedition to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. An adult male Megalara garuda...

Dec 2, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Evolutionary biologists from University of Michigan found that paper wasps have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used...

Sep 26, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers have determined that two unusual wasps in amber found in New Jersey, USA represent a new family of wasps, according to a press release from...