Scroll through our magnified specimen images and discover the miniature ... When the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae devour the host insect alive, until they're ready to turn into adult wasps and leave.

It’s hard to think of a less popular insect than the yellowjacket, maligned because they can sting. First, I should be clear that “yellowjacket” is an imprecise, generic common name that conceals a ...

The researchers say wasps are a much maligned insect, which deserve more attention. Rather than being "bothersome and pointless", they are in fact beneficial insects, keeping other pests in check.

Phil Warburton didn't recognise the unusual looking wasp that flittered into his ... of photographers taking the first ever images of live insects was becoming surprisingly commonplace because ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia - is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

The Coccus hesperidum scale insects, according to ... ecological expertise and the wasps have given the buntings a much-needed lifeline.” PA Images/Getty A South Atlantic island (stock image ...

I've seen pictures of dead specimens of this wasp but never of it in action ... Mr Edwards said: "People don't pay as much attention to insect species as they do to bigger, more enigmatic ...