It's a playbook adapted by many parasitic wasps, including modern-day cuckoo and bethylid wasps, to exploit insects. But no known wasp or any other insect does so with bizarre flaps quite like ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp's abdomen ...

This photo provided by Qiong Wu in March 2025 shows an ancient wasp, preserved in amber from Myanmar, whose back end resembles a Venus flytrap plant. (Qiong Wu via AP) ...

Its larvae then started their lives as parasites in or on the host’s body and likely ended up eating ... parasitoid wasp species. For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their ...

depositing a baby wasp to feed on and drain its new host. It’s a playbook adapted by many parasitic wasps, including modern-day cuckoo and bethylid wasps, to exploit insects. But no known wasp or any ...

For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nest of another wasp species ... on the host’s body and likely ended up eating the host entirely, Vilhelmsen said.

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For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nest of another wasp species, and the larvae feast on their new hosts’ young ... Its larvae then started their lives as ...