Parasitic wasp with a giant head has been discovered and it's the stuff of nightmares ...

Fig wasps use a unique tool to find the best place to lay eggs - a tube, called an ovipositor, hardened with zinc. Biologists are amazed at the discovery. Female insects spend a lot of time and effort ...

Female wasps have a long, needle-like organ called an ovipositor, used for piercing plant tissues or the hard exoskeletons of insects, and to lay her eggs. In 2015, Niclas Fritzén and Ilari Sääksjärvi ...

Parasitic fig wasps of the genus Apocrypta lay their eggs inside unripe fruits of fig plants. Larvae that emerge from eggs of parasitic fig wasps feed on larvae of another species — the pollinating ...

BANGALORE: Did you know that wasps, the everyday insects lay eggs using an egg-laying organ called the ovipositor? And some of them lay eggs inside figs and need to drill through the fig fruit to do ...

The egg-laying technique of parasitic wasps is the inspiration behind the design of a new medical tool that could provide minimally invasive ways to remove blood clots or cancerous tissues, or deliver ...