Learn about the wasps that have a gruesome but fascinating way of surviving.

Making of a zombie. Jewel wasps are a beautiful if terrifying example of how neurotoxic venoms can do much more than paralyze. The wasp, which is often just a fraction of the size of her victim, ...

You hear the term “zombie wasp” and think “That’s awful! Why is it worse?” Because it’s a misnomer! The zombie wasp, Ampulex dementor, does not, in fact, turn cockroaches into zombies ...

ZOMBIE FIGHT CLUB The first close look at how cockroaches defend against the emerald jewel wasp shows the importance of standing tall and kicking a lot.. K.C. Catania/Brain, Behavior & Evolution 2018 ...

The wasp stings the roach in the brain, turning it into a ‘zombie” for its young to devour. National Watch this cockroach karate kick a brain-invading wasp to avoid ...

[Watch the Zombie Slave Spider Do the Wasp's Bidding (Video)] Over the past several years, Takasuka has headed to the Shinto shrines of Hyogo prefecture to collect spiders enslaved by the ...

Because all but four of the 168 head-plugged crypts studied had a keeper wasp, it’s clear that the gall wasps did not die from accidentally getting stuck in the holes as they tried to emerge.

A zombie wasp has been pictured after a parasitic fungi infected it and took over its body. The Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division posted pictures of the wasp to Facebook, where it ...

The wasps' young are raised in these crypts, where they eventually gnaw their way to freedom, but a different parasitic wasp, it turns out, hijacks this process for its own purposes.

If a ladybug's life were a horror film, this is how it would start: Scary string music. A close-up of the green-eyed face of a wasp. The sudden pierce of a stinger. The screen goes dark.

Making of a zombie. Jewel wasps are a beautiful if terrifying example of how neurotoxic venoms can do much more than paralyze. The wasp, which is often just a fraction of the size of her victim, ...