"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Ancient, Parasitic Wasp Used Its Rear End Like a Venus Flytrap to Catch Insects and Lay Its Eggs on Them, Study SuggestsAn ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, ...
The recently discovered Sirenobethylus charybdis has features not seen in any known insect living today, researchers say.
Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...
Bizarre creature preserved in 99 million-year-old amber was ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say
A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among ... on its abdomen that could have allowed it to trap other insects, the researchers reported Thursday in the journal BMC Biology.
If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...
New Scientist on MSN5d
Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap fliesBizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...
Experts at the University of Dundee have joined the fight against a potentially fatal parasitic disease affecting millions of people worldwide.
An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...
Holotype of Sirenobethylus charybdis. Qiong Wu The morphology of the wasps indicates that they were parasitoids, or insects whose larvae live as parasites inside their hosts before eventually ...
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