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 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.

The jewel wasp administers two stings: one to paralyze the legs, the other to make the roach her zombie slave. Credit: Ken Catania/Vanderbilt University ...

If you haven’t already met Ampulex compressa, otherwise known as the jewel wasp, now is as good a time as any. Someday you may be very grateful that you did. This gorgeous animal, which measures ...

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 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 ...

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.

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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 ...