- James Webb telescope finds evidence of water in atmosphere of planet WASP-96 b, 1,150 light-years away. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-steamy-atmosphere-of-distant-planet-in-detail 464 comments futurology
- Cannibal wasp babies eat their siblings. Scientists have found female wasps lay too many eggs for all of the larvae to survive on the insect corpses that she provides, leaving her babies with no option but to cannibalize each other https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0267958 23 comments science
- Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-china-chongqing-84436504dbf59c587cb227eb4c1fe0c5 27 comments worldnews
- Missouri probably doesn’t have ‘murder hornets’ – Just giant wasps https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-probably-doesnt-have-murder-hornets-just-giant-wasps/ 83 comments nottheonion
- New studies of preserved specimens reveal that there are at least 15 more species of parasitic wasps than previously thought. The larvae of these insects eat their host spiders while simultaneously controlling their minds https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/researchers-discover-15-new-parasitic-wasps-that-mind-control-spiders 3 comments science
- What Trump reveals in saying Hispanic supporter 'looks more like a WASP than I do' https://us.cnn.com/2019/09/17/politics/donald-trump-the-hispanic-steve-cortes/index.html 13 comments politics
- Flying insects in hospitals carry 'superbug' germs, finds a new study that trapped nearly 20,000 flies, aphids, wasps and moths at 7 hospitals in England. Almost 9 in 10 insects had potentially harmful bacteria, of which 53% were resistant to at least one class of antibiotics, and 19% to multiple. https://www.upi.com/health_news/2019/06/22/flying-insects-in-hospitals-carry-superbug-germs/6451561211127/ 697 comments science
- Scientists Found a New Species of Wasp That Turns Spiders Into Zombies https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmdzgx/scientists-found-a-new-species-of-wasp-that-turns-spiders-into-zombies?utm_campaign=sharebutton 2 comments science
- Christian Wade dramatically abandons rugby career with Wasps in an attempt to play American football in the NFL https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-6292533/christian-wade-dramatically-abandons-rugby-career-play-nfl.html 116 comments nfl
- Doctors Are Now Warning Women Not To Stick Wasp Nests In Their Private Parts https://www.apost.com/en/blog/doctors-are-now-warning-women-not-to-stick-wasp-nests-in-their-private-parts/8897/ 4 comments nottheonion
- Romania hit by plague of wasps http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/09/romania-hit-by-plague-of-wasps 8 comments worldnews
- Women are putting ground-up wasp nests in their vaginas and doctors want them to stop http://globalnews.ca/news/3502992/women-are-putting-ground-up-wasp-nests-in-their-vaginas-and-doctors-want-them-to-stop/ 5 comments nottheonion
- Red-eyed mutant wasps created in lab for first time: 'Big beautiful red eyes are something you won’t miss' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/red-eyed-mutant-wasps-created-akbari-lab-jewel-malaria-crops-crispr-gene-editing-slicing-a7690466.html 39 comments worldnews
- Sheriff's Office: Ft. Campbell soldier hit, killed after running from wasps on Highway 41 http://fox17.com/news/local/sheriffs-office-ft-campbell-soldier-hit-killed-after-running-from-wasps-on-i-41 4 comments nottheonion
- Newly-Discovered Species of Parasitic Wasp Named after Brad Pitt http://www.sci-news.com/biology/parasitic-wasp-species-brad-pitt-03842.html 4 comments nottheonion
- TIL That Tuukka Rask has a species of wasp named after him. Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraski, named after Rask, "whose glove hand is as tenacious as the raptorial fore tarsus of this dryinid species." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tuukka_rask 137 comments hockey
- European Champions Cup Quarter Final yesterday, Wasps down by 6 in the last 15 seconds... https://streamable.com/cecb 6 comments sports
- PE and PS Lipids Synergistically Enhance Membrane Poration by a Peptide with Anticancer Properties -- How a wasp's venom actuates cell death of cancerous cells http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0006349515007687 2 comments science
- Study suggests bees aren't the be all and end all for crop pollination. Many crops —including mangoes, custard apples, kiwi fruit, coffee and canola —depend on non-bee insect pollinators such as flies, butterflies, moths, beetles, wasps, ants, and thrips http://phys.org/news/2015-11-bees-crop-pollination.html 7 comments science
- Wasps Have Genetically Modified Butterflies, Using Viruses http://www.newsweek.com/gmo-butterflies-made-naturally-parasitic-wasps-373541 10 comments worldnews
- Using a symbiotic virus, wasps have genetically modified monarchs and other butterflies http://www.newsweek.com/gmo-butterflies-made-naturally-parasitic-wasps-373541 3 comments science
- Wasps May Be Battling Ash Tree Killing Beetles http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2015/september/bug-vs-bug-wasps-may-battling-ash-killing-beetles.html 3 comments science
- An Indian scientist who spent 40 years studying a wasp receives Germany’s highest civilian honour http://scroll.in/article/747169/an-indian-scientist-who-spent-40-years-studying-a-wasp-receives-germanys-highest-civilian-honour 12 comments india
- How parasites turn their hosts into zombie slaves: In some cases, researchers have found evidence suggesting that the parasites release brain-controlling chemicals. But the wasp uses another strategy: there’s a parasite within this parasite. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/10/parasites-within-parasites/ 5 comments science
- More bad news for Coventry City - Rugby club Wasps bid £30m for Ricoh Arena http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/ricoh-arena-takeover-bid-rugby-7873182 7 comments soccer
- Winchester woman finds 3-foot wasp nest on bed [image included] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-28949601 27 comments worldnews
- Wasp stings Norwegian man on crotch and causes car-crash http://www.thelocal.no/20140806/wasp-stings-norwegian-man-on-crotch-and-causes-car-crash 3 comments nottheonion
- Blue tits learn to eat alien wasps http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1362 20 comments science
- Bizarre "King of Wasps" Found in Indonesia - A new species of giant, venomous wasp has been found in Indonesia. The two-inch-long (five-centimeter-long) black insects are shrouded in mystery—all of the wasp specimens caught so far have been dead. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120327-new-species-wasps-king-bugs-indonesia-animals-science/ 27 comments science
- 'King of Wasps' found in Indonesia: Two-and-a-half inch monster has jaws longer than its legs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2119343/king-wasps-indonesia-two-half-inch-monster-jaws-longer-legs.html#ixzz1q1tw6hv8 228 comments science
- Fairy wasps, which are the size of an amoeba, have a nervous system in which roughly 95% of the neurons don't have a nucleus. http://io9.com/5861630/fairy-wasps-shrink-to-the-size-of-amoeba-by-sacrificing-their-neurons 29 comments science
- Stunning Close Up of a Female Wasp http://www.flickr.com/photos/opoterser/3339417842/sizes/l/ 232 comments science
- If you thought the Japanese Giant Hornet was big, then you have never seen a Tarantula Hawk, a giant wasp that can carry a full size tarantula! http://www.durangonaturestudies.org/articles/080804.htm 13 comments reddit.com
- Wasp sucking machine http://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/built/wasp-sucker.html 262 comments technology
- Parasitic wasp discovered in Ireland http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/58870 2 comments science
- Woman assaulted for wearing "Obama Is My Slave" shirt. Shirt designer "claims that his designs reflect the views of 'ordinary WASPs (White Anglo Saxon Protestants)." http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7345/title.woman-assaulted-after-wearing-obama-t-shirt 5 comments reddit.com
- As they eat the caterpillar alive, these wasps also seem to do something to its brain... http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/03/stockholm_syndrome_for_moths.php 68 comments science
- Wasp catching a spider mid flight (Pic) http://bestpicever.com/pic-244-wasp-catches-spider-mid-flight 7 comments reddit.com
- Giant Asian Wasp (pic) http://www.vespa-crabro.de/vespa-mandarinia/vespa-mandarinia.jpg 36 comments reddit.com
- Close-up of a wasp [1298 x 1320 JPG] http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=256220148&size=o 23 comments reddit.com