University of Adelaide researchers say a small wasp that scientists had forgotten about for more than 200 years is now making a name for itself – as a predator of Australia's most common dangerous ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

A wasp collected on Captain Cook’s voyage in 1770, but largely forgotten since, has been found to prey on redback spiders. NOTORIOUS REDBACK SPIDERS are one of the more dangerous species in Australia, ...

While we typically think of spiders as the ones eating insects, spider wasps (members of the family Pompilidae) prey on spiders. This video captures a showdown between a tarantula and one of these ...

Throughout Australia, a tiny wasp stings and paralyzes redback spiders before laying an egg that develops into a larva and slowly devours the dangerous arachnids, Australian researchers have announced ...

KOBE, Japan, Aug. 6 (UPI) --Wasps can be rather cruel. As a study out of Japan reveals, one species of parasitic wasp manipulates spiders into building its nest. The wasp (Reclinervellus nielseni) ...

Deimos was the Greek god of terror, the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He was often accompanied into battle by twin brother Phobos, the god of fear. The latter god spawned the word phobia: an extreme or ...

Most people recognize a wasp as those stripy insects that ruin our summer picnics. They live in huge societies, much the same as the honeybee. You might even have a nest in your loft or shed. But ...

Here’s a great home security tip from nature: if you don’t want people breaking into your house, stuff your hallway with corpses. Ideally, use the corpses of dangerous and foul-smelling people. Staab ...

Learn and watch how the incredible wheel spider escapes parasitic wasps in the desert by cartwheeling down slopes.