The jewel wasp has over millions of years not only developed a mind-control drug, but an astonishingly methodical brand of brain surgery to deliver it. "OK, seriously.

Jewel wasp venom is only one example of neurotoxic venom taken to the extreme. There are more than 130 species in the same wasp genus, including the newly described Ampulex dementor ...

The jewel wasp has over millions of years not only developed a mind-control drug, but an astonishingly methodical brand of brain surgery to deliver it. Sting operation.

Jewel wasps carve up cockroaches like jack-o’-lanterns in a way scientists have never seen before. By Jason Bittel If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp ...

The infamous emerald jewel wasp turns its prey, the American cockroach, into a brainless zombie. The prey is several times larger than the wasp, so it cannot drag the victim to its nesting burrow.

Jewel wasps (Nasonia vitripennis) can be found across North America, and they reproduce by injecting their eggs, along with a paralyzing venom, inside the shells of still-developing flies.

Jewel wasps belong to Chalcidoidea, a superfamily of parasitic wasps that attack other insects and lay their eggs within them, using a tubular organ called an ovipositor. During a visit to the ...

An Immense World Ed Yong Random House, $30. Emerald jewel wasps know what cockroach brains feel like. This comes in handy when a female wasp needs to turn a cockroach into an obedient zombie that ...

The emerald jewel wasp’s unusual arrival into the world—bursting from the body of a zombified cockroach it has eaten from the inside—ranks among nature’s most gruesome miracles.

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 ...