Insect turns arachnid into a zombie, forces it to build its most protective web The spiders build delicate round webs to catch prey. But that changes after an adult R. nielseni wasp stings a spider, ...

An ichneumonid parasitic wasp seizes control of the parasitized spider and exploits its 'resting web' building behavior as seen before moulting, scientists have discovered. Researchers examining the ...

Having been attacked, paralysed and implanted with a wasp egg to its belly, a wolf spider carries on with its ordinary life. At least, until it is time for the larva to reach out for its first solid ...

The horrifying moment a spider hunting wasp lay its eggs inside a paralysed spider has been shared by a woman who likened it to "sci-fi". A poisoning its prey, the sinister creature drag s it into a ...

Researchers have discovered 15 new wasp species in lowland Amazon rainforests and Andean cloud forests that parasitize spiders in a “complex way.” Female Acrotaphus wasps are known to attack spiders ...

After measuring their initial weights, we induced first instar larvae of Mantispa uhleri Banks to board individual Salticus scenicus (Clerck) adults and immatures. After varying periods of time (2 to ...

A TERRIFYING tarantula hawk wasp was captured dragging a huge huntsman spider to lay larvae that will eat it alive. The orange-black wasp had paralysed the spider, before dragging it up a wall in a ...