If you haven’t already met Ampulex compressa, otherwise known as the jewel wasp, now is as good a time as any. Someday you may be very grateful that you did ...

Zombie insects might sound like the B-movie plot device. But to the emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa ), they’re a tried and tested way to provide food for their hungry larvae. Researchers ...

I collect tales of parasites the way some people collect Star Trek plates. And having filled an entire book with them, I thought I had pretty much collected the whole set. But until now I had somehow ...

The jewel wasp is known to be a brutal killer. ©Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock.com Imagine a predator that doesn't just kill its prey, but performs a high-stakes "brain surgery" to turn it into a ...

A new family of peptides in the venom of the wasp Ampulex compressa, when injected into the brain of a cockroach, could control the mind of the cockroach, and might even help researchers develop ...