Sound gruesome? That’s because it is. Here are five of my favourite examples from the world of solitary wasps. The infamous emerald jewel wasp turns its prey, the American cockroach , into a ...

They would have done well to take a lesson from the emerald cockroach wasp (aka the jewel wasp), which employs a very real and far more disturbing and effective method of brainwashing. This ...

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.

If you ever want to witness just how horrifyingly "red in tooth and claw" nature can be, you only have to look to the emerald jewel wasp. The female of the species is known for stinging ...

The jewel wasp (Ampulex compressa ... but the parasites must make their way to an aquatic habitat in order to reproduce. Researchers at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ...

You don’t have to be a neurosurgeon to perform brain surgery. A tiny parasitic wasp (Ampulex compressa), called the jewel wasp, uses sensors on its stinger to find and inject a venom “cocktail ...

Emerald jewel wasps are a solitary species known for their unusual reproductive traits. The female stings the thorax and brain of the American cockroach in order to take control of its behavior.

Ken Catania, a biologist and professor at the school, videotaped interactions between the roaches and their predators — emerald jewel wasps — and studied their interactions. “It’s kind of ...

That’s getting zombified — and then eaten alive. When some unlucky American cockroaches encounter the emerald jewel wasp, the wasp delivers a paralyzing sting to the roach’s body.

In fact, according to the report from Catania published Wednesday in Karger, cockroaches fight back — at least when it is against a wasp that uses the roach as an incubator for its offspring.