The emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa) possesses a remarkable and unparalleled adaptive strategy among insects: it physically and chemically controls its prey's brain, domesticating it as ...

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 ...

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A changing climate is already challenging B.C.’s ­hermit crabs, and infection by a common zombie-creating crab-infecting parasite may make it worse. The hairy hermit crab can be seen scuttling around, ...

The species is described as having a blue-green body with a “purple luster,” researchers said. Photo by Charlie Chi via Unsplash In nature, animal parents can range from being doting and ...

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If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp. Females of the species Ampulex compressa, known also as emerald cockroach wasps, are less than an inch long and decked out in ...

The Wasp Woman poster. The Wasp Woman (also known as The Bee Girl and Insect Woman) is a 1959 American independent science-fiction horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. Filmed in ...