Figs, these sweet fruits enjoyed since antiquity, hide a surprising biological relationship with tiny insects. A popular ...

Galls are small, tumor-like growths formed on plants that act as incubators for oak gall wasp larvae. Parasitic wasps often lay their own eggs in these galls, which later feed on their victims. North ...

A rare moth - which looks like a wasp - becomes the 10,000th species recorded at UK nature reserve Wicken Fen.

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need ...

Scientists have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon rain forests of Peru. The new wasp genus called amazonica Capitojoppa is one of several species unknown to science which were discovered in ...

Some wasp species adjust the number of male offspring they produce when sharing fig trees with other wasp species.

This September, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department ...

Kolkata: The discovery of a new species of wasp has captured the attention of entomologists worldwide. Found in the lush ...

A wasp sting is painful, but only dangerous to those who are allergic.

This stripy specimen was discovered in a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire this summer. The six-belted clearwing, to use its ...