Popping out of the heads of its hosts seemed strange enough. Then scientists discovered something even stranger. By JoAnna Klein To deposit its eggs, the parasitic oak gall wasp pierces a leaf or stem ...

A recently discovered wasp can apparently control the minds of its victims. Euderus set, otherwise known as the crypt-keeper wasp, has the uncanny ability to control the actions of multiple species of ...

Crypt-keeper wasps are masters of manipulation. As researchers reported in 2017, the insect is one of the few parasites capable of altering the behavior of similarly insidious parasites—a practice ...