Wasp stings were painful enough for people, but the brightly-coloured pests also had a devastating impact on our native species. “They kill lots of insects and feed on young, native birds in ...

Cicada killers do have a stinger, but it appears blunt by contrast. The tip of the abdomen is black and rounded. Sting behavior can also indicate the species. If you receive a painful sting from a ...

and three species of paper wasp. All have painful stings for humans and nasty effects on native species. “The harms are huge. They kill lots of insects and feed on young, native birds in nests. “They ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

A CAGED torture killer has demanded human rights compensation claiming he suffered “mental trauma” when prison officers broke the Xbox in his cell. Nigel Farmer, 49, was jailed for a minimum ...

A 'sadistic' killer who tortured two students has demanded up to £10,000 in human rights compensation after claiming he suffered 'mental trauma' when prison staff broke his Xbox console.