Orange County gardeners who grow tomatoes, strawberries or corn might be getting a little help from something few of us will ever see: the egg wasp. They are among the tiniest of tiny insects ...

Gall wasps are a small breed of wasps that lay their eggs in Oak and Pecan trees. Their eggs grow into the tree, leaving a hard capsule around it, which the larvae inside will eventually eat.

Braconid, Ichneumon and Trichogrammatid wasps are usually small in size: 215 mm for Braconids; 3–40 mm for most Ichneumon wasps; and 0.3–1.0 mm for Trichogrammatids.

A newly discovered giant planet is the density of a vast cloud of cotton candy. The sweet discovery of WASP-193b marks the entry of the second-lightest exoplanet ever seen into the exoplanet catalog.

At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave Desert, fluffy white motes skitter like tumbleweeds across the sand. Some are fruit: harmless, fuzzy orbs dropped by the creosote bush. Others are white … ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The insatiable fruit- and leaf-eating light-brown apple moth may ...

I posted this little item on my Facebook page today, and it got an explosion of replies, which I attach. If you have a wasp or bee tale of your own to tell, feel free to post it here or to send me ...

So you’ve seen “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and you’ve stuck around and watched the scenes after “Quantumania” and you’re going, “Wha—?” It’s no spoiler to say ...

The large, brightly lit sheet, meant to attract insects just like a porch light does in the dark, ... New species of orange-red praying mantis mimics a wasp. Mongabay.com. 25 Oct 2019 Amazon.

The thistledown velvet ant, which is actually a wasp, resembles creosote fuzz. But mimicry isn’t the reason, a new study suggests. By Sabrina Imbler At the foot of certain shrubs in the Mojave ...