If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

For many readers, I fear that the holiday weekend during which everyone who didn’t have to work celebrated the glories of the labor force by dutifully not laboring is a three-dayer that just might be ...

What’s buzzing around Arizona? It’s not bees or mosquitoes, it’s wasps. Active year-round, wasps are most noticeable during the summer months, particularly from June through September. This peak ...

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If you puncture the ovary of a wasp called Microplitis demolitor, viruses squirt out in vast quantities, shimmering like iridescent blue toothpaste. “It’s very beautiful, and just amazing that there’s ...

Jewel wasps carve up cockroaches like jack-o’-lanterns in a way scientists have never seen before. By Jason Bittel If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp. Females of ...

Getting stung by a wasp can be immensely painful, and typically leads to a reaction of swelling, redness, and itching around the sting site. Fortunately, if you have a normal reaction to a wasp sting, ...

Wasps are some of the most misunderstood creatures on the planet, but you definitely do not want to harass them. Although the ubiquitous insects are quite pretty — northern paper wasps, for example, ...

The Sphex has shown us how infallibly and with what transcendental art she acts when guided by the unconscious inspiration of her instinct; she is now going to show us how poor she is in resource, how ...

The Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. THE LANGUEDOCIAN SPHEX Chapter VIII. THE LANGUEDOCIAN SPHEX When the ...