Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. It's a ...
Fending off an attacker by swordplay with two genital spines turns out to be a moderately useful form of self-defense for male wasps, an unusual study shows. A mason wasp’s rear spikes may be useless ...
Female bees and wasps use modified ovipositors, formerly used in egg laying, to sting their attackers, including people. Now, a study in Current Biology on December 19 shows that male mason wasps use ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Nigel Cattlin / Alamy Stock Photo Bacteria that live inside parasitic wasps eliminate all ...
Nature is all about survival of the fittest. Creatures have to constantly adapt in order to live in a world filled with predators trying to kill them. This might mean growing hard shells like turtles ...
Predation can lead to the evolution of defensive devices in prey animals. Genitalia, which are used for mating between males and females, have rarely been considered to function as an important ...
Predation can lead to the evolution of defensive devices in prey animals. Genitalia, which are used for mating between males and females, have rarely been considered to function as an important ...
Of all the places to find the love of your life, hidden inside the shell of a still-developing fly probably ranks low in most expectations. However, for a male jewel wasp this is the first place to go ...
A late-July-August insect looks about a scary as they come, but there is no need to fear the male velvet wasp, sometimes called a velvet ant or “cow killer.” He’s fuzzy; he’s harmless. The female of ...
Each of fifteen triplets of three male Polistes fuscatus (each triplet consisting of two brothers and an unrelated male) was placed into a cardboard box and each observed over a period of two days for ...
Males of a species of parasitic wasp can identify potential mates from chemicals they give off, even before the females have emerged from within their host fly. Jewel wasps (Nasonia vitripennis) are ...
If scientists kidnap all adult females from a wasp nest, the young males—which normally just hang around without working—will pitch in and feed at least some of the larvae, researchers find. This ...
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