It's Halloween, so prepare to be terrified. And no, this column has nothing to do with Open Enrollment Season. Instead, it relates to the emerald cockroach wasp, a wisp of an insect that you may have ...

The natural world can be beautiful and transcendent. It can also be downright merciless, and almost medieval in its strategies for extracting resources. The emerald jewel wasp and its method of ...

Jewel wasps are among the most disturbing parasites in the animal kingdom, tiny insects capable of turning cockroaches into living zombies through a horrifying form of biological mind control . After ...

On Wednesday, I posted about a parasitic wasp that turns a caterpillar into both a living incubator and a zombie-like bodyguard for its larvae. Well, it seems to be a bumper week for wasp research; ...