If anything in nature could be creepier than cockroaches, it would be zombie cockroaches, so good thing those don’t exist, right? Right? Actually, they do exist, thanks to the terrifying work of the ...

I’m heading out of blog contact for a couple days, so allow me to share one of my favorite posts, from last January–on wasps that perform brain surgery. As an adult, Ampulex compressa seems like your ...

If you haven’t already met Ampulex compressa, otherwise known as the jewel wasp, now is as good a time as any. Someday you may be very grateful that you did ...

These days, zombies seem to be ubiquitous in popular culture, although the origin of such a creature is somewhat obscure. In a Haitian folklore, zombies appear as animated corpses raised by magic or ...

Zombie insects might sound like the B-movie plot device. But to the emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa ), they’re a tried and tested way to provide food for their hungry larvae. Researchers ...

A new family of peptides in the venom of the wasp Ampulex compressa, when injected into the brain of a cockroach, could control the mind of the cockroach, and might even help researchers develop ...

Want to know the best way to kill a cockroach? Well, first inject some powerful neurotoxins directly into its brain. This will make the bug compliant; it won't try to fly away and will bend to your ...

Video: Watch a jewel wasp sting a cockroach, turning it into a “zombie” There is a cure for zombies after all – if you are a cockroach. A new study has shown that cockroaches that turned into “zombies ...

Wasps, bees, sawflies and ants all belong to a grouping of insects known as Hymenoptera - and Gavin Broad is an enormous fan Well, first inject some powerful neurotoxins directly into its brain. This ...