A Bee Bumped into my Head is available at libraries across the N.W.T., as well as the Hay River visitors centre, among a handful of other retailers. Lakusta said he's also sent the book to school ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a new species of parasitic wasp that grows inside the bodies of living flies before bursting out of their stomachs like a xenomorph from the 'Alien' movies.

This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made dark by melanin) in its abdomen. The cysts are the remains of wasp eggs that the fly successfully suppressed.

So Lakusta started storyboarding a children's book. It would be called A Bee Bumped into my Head. His next challenge would be finding somebody to bring his words to life. "I'm not an artist, so I ...

One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by stealing a gene from bacteria that originated in bacteriophage. Biologists inserted that gene into other flies, making these flies ...

University of California, Berkeley, biologists have shown that several species of fruit fly have stolen a successful defense from bacteria to survive predation by parasitic wasps, which in some ...

Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made ...