NEW YORK — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set ...

Parasitic wasps are able to survive by keenly predicting the changing of the seasons based on the length of days throughout the year - and a new online database explores the genetic explanation for ...

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genomes of three species of tiny parasitic wasps that kill agricultural pests. A female Nasonia wasp stinging a fly pupa and laying its eggs ...

Scientists have mapped the genomes for three kinds of parasitic wasps, providing a new genetic model system based on the Nasonia genus. The availability of these genome sequences will aid the analysis ...