The jewel wasp is a parasite with a method so precise it can turn a cockroach into a living host without killing it ...

Imagine a predator that doesn’t just kill its prey, but performs a high-stakes “brain surgery” to turn it into a willing ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. If you ...

If cockroaches had nightmares, the emerald cockroach wasp surely would deserve a prominent place therein. These colorful, tiny parasitic wasps sting American cockroaches twice, once in the midsection ...

If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp. Females of the species Ampulex compressa, known also as emerald cockroach wasps, are less than an inch long and decked out in ...

A new study has identified four new species of parasitic, cockroach-killing ensign wasps that became encased in tree resin 25 million years ago and were preserved as the resin fossilized into amber.

In nature, animal parents can range from being doting and self-sacrificing to threatening or absent entirely. Driven by instinct, some species have developed effective yet bizarre ways to ensure their ...