Bees, wasps, and hornets have found unique ways to survive in habitats all around the world.Mud daubers are a type of wasp that has developed a particularly interesting nesting behavior — they ...

Cuckoo wasp (Chrysididae) In Australia, the cuckoo wasp comes in a variety of bright metallic blues and greens. Classed as a parasitoid, like many wasps, it lays eggs in the nests of mud-dauber wasps.

The process begins by moistening the mud with water until it becomes gooey. Next, not one, not two, but a total of 300 eggs are coated in the mud and placed on hot charcoal. Once cooked, the eggs are ...

Syntretus perlmani lays its eggs in the bodies of living, adult fruit flies instead of larvae or pupae. The wasp larvae then burst out of the fly’s abdomen, killing it.

The blue mud-dauber is a scary looking but gentle wasp that helps control the spider population. Skip to main content Skip to main content. You have permission to edit this ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered parasitizing adult fruit flies – the first of its kind ever documented. Parasitoid wasps' life cycles can get pretty gruesome (at least from the ...