Georgina was at the waterhole early to photograph birds, but her attention was diverted to these industrious wasps. They were busy at the water’s edge, rolling the soft mud into balls and ... spiders ...

Then she lays an egg on the roach and buries the insect alive as living meat for a wasp larva. Though a normal roach could dig itself out, there’s no sign that the wasp-stung ones can even try.

mud daubers, and hornets are some of North America's most common wasp species. In North America, worker wasps—infertile female wasps—build the nest, feed larvae, forage for food, and defend ...

Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars ... but wasps can still develop inside it. When a wasp larva finds itself nestled inside a ...

milky larvae wriggle out of their still-living caterpillar host, leaving behind the scarred, gaping holes from whence they emerged. The larvae belong to a type of wasp called parasitoids, whose young ...