A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

The recently discovered Sirenobethylus charybdis has features not seen in any known insect living today, researchers say.

Kangaroo Island is home to South Australia's only remaining population of Green Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata). The ...

The collections include 99 per cent of Australia's native birds as well as exotic bird species, skeletons, mammals, reptiles ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

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 ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects ...

Recently, the CU Museum of Natural history got a new tool to aid its digitization efforts: a camera and computer setup capable of creating three-dimensional models of insect specimens. This ...

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

To fill in the gaps in the fossil record, Labandeira and his colleagues recently analyzed more than a hundred sprawling datasets of insect-damaged plant specimens. Their findings, published last ...