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 ...

It's Halloween, so prepare to be terrified. And no, this column has nothing to do with Open Enrollment Season. Instead, it relates to the emerald cockroach wasp, a wisp of an insect that you may have ...

A group of 300 museum visitors voted to name a new species of cockroach wasps the Ampulex Dementor. The name is inspired by the Dementors from the magical world of Harry Potter, Mugglenet reports. The ...

Jewel wasps are among the most disturbing parasites in the animal kingdom, tiny insects capable of turning cockroaches into ...

At a glance, it resembles a creepy, crawly black spider — but with wings. Your first instinct upon finding one in your home may be to flatten it. Once you discover that it comes from a family of ...

Wasps are among the most ruthless and bizarre predators in the animal kingdom, evolving over 100,000 species of specialized ...