Last week, we discussed tomato diseases. This week, we will cover pests just as destructive: insects. Damage to plants via ...

Female pincer wasps have front legs modified with a pinching apparatus, allowing them to firmly grasp hosts when they lay eggs. These wingless hunters, with large eyes and slender legs, ...

Despite the name, the Eastern Velvet Ant is actually a wingless wasp, though these colorful insects look a lot like ants. The black and orange-red bug with a long ovipositor, ...

Also: cow killers are not actually ants. They are wingless wasps. What Should You Do About Cicada Killer Wasps? In general, ...

Crawling along the underbrush of the tropical savannas of Brazil, there’s a powerful and mysterious insect known as the velvet ant. Actually a kind of wasp, wingless females of this species ...

Male wasps hatched within the fig mate with their "sister" offspring and bite through the fig to provide a way out for the female offspring. After mating, wingless male wasps die within the fig, ...

Velvet ants are in fact a family of wingless wasps with more than 7000 species. The researcher Justin Schmidt, who invented the Schmidt sting pain index, described their sting as “explosive and ...

As it happens, velvet ants, known colloquially to Brazilians as “sorcerer ants,” are actually a type of wasp, but the females, which are wingless, give the creatures their name.

Velvet ants: Despite their name, velvet ants are actually wasps. The females are wingless and covered in dense hair, often brightly colored in red, orange, or yellow.

Velvet ants: Despite their name, velvet ants are wasps. The females are wingless and covered in dense hair, often brightly colored in red, orange, or yellow. Are California paper wasps aggressive?