Parasitoid wasps sometimes lay eggs in unsuitable host insects, a behavior that has traditionally been considered accidental.

Though both belong to the same insect species (Hymenoptera), they're very different insects. Their appearances are different—while bees are plumper and fuzzy, wasps are longer and smooth.

Bees, wasps, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of ...

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, in a paper on the Social Hymenoptera (Bees, Wasps, and Ants), especially with reference to their habits, senses, and power of communication with one another, pointed out with ...

Dr Gavin Broad, Senior Curator of Hymenoptera, explains the gruesome phenomenon. The inside of a chrysalis: dark, sleepy, undisturbed. Or so you would think. In reality, it's a hiding place that is ...