Indeed, quite a few parasitic wasps can be found on Staten Island. A few weeks ago, I received an email from Suzanne DiMaso, accompanied by some photographs of an ichneumon wasp she had taken in ...

The giant ichneumon wasp, megarhyssa rixator, has an unusual method for laying eggs. Using her overly-long ovipositor to drill deep into a tree trunk, she deposits a single egg on to the surface ...

Through an examination of collections, both natural and experimental rearings, and DNA sequence data, three nominal species of ichneumon wasps, having very different morphologies and hitherto ...

Although Ichneumon wasps, of which there are hundreds of varieties, are pretty common in the area, people tend to notice them less as they are not aggressive, Roberts said.

Can you identify this insect? It is photographed perched on a lemon verbena plant in our garden. Feargal O’Neill, Co Galway. I can: it is an Ichneumon wasp – a parasitic insect that lays eggs ...

The trailer for Ridley Scott’s 1979 movie ‘Alien.’ In 2018, scientists from Australia returned the love, and named a new species of parasitoid wasps Dolichogenidea xenomorph, after the alien ...