The female (whose stinger is not only fearsomely long, but usually wide as well) injects arachnid hosts with a venom first to paralyze them. The wasp then lays its eggs on the spider’s body.

"The stinger looks like a fierce weapon." Researchers say the class of wasps like the one they discovered use their stingers not only to inject other creatures with venom but also to lay eggs. Th ...

It's a tiny parasitoid wasp with a giant stinger that the female uses not only to paralyze her host but also to deposit eggs inside the unsuspecting creature (who will soon suffer a grueling death ...

They’re also for stunning and killing spiders as incubation hosts, wrapping them up in their own webs, and injecting them with wasp eggs ... uses the ovipositor [stinger] for injecting venom ...

Once the stinger pierces a mammal's soft skin ... In one day a queen can lay her weight in eggs. She will lay one egg per minute, day and night, for a total of 1,500 eggs over a 24-hour period ...

Scientists discovered a new wasp species with a terrifyingly large stinger. Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland recently discovered the Clistopyga crassicaudata, which lives ...

Some digger wasps impale their prey on their stinger, a way to transport their meal home to their nest. Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs inside an insect. To accomplish this, the wasp must first ...