Talk about a raw deal: deadly parasitic wasps ruin the lives of adolescent spiders by taking over their minds, forcing them to become hermits and then eating them alive. A remarkable species of social ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – Spiders are perhaps the most feared invertebrates on the planet. Their eight long legs seem to move almost as if each of them has a mind of their own rather than belonging to one ...

A terrifying new species of parasitic wasp that transforms its victims into suicidal zombies has been found in the Amazon. The nightmare bug turns spiders into helpless drones who abandon their own ...

There's no real human equivalent for the zombified attack, one of the most jarring styles of survival in the animal kingdom. For proof of how perplexing these attacks are, consider what parasitoid ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Parasitoid wasps take control of spider minds to get them to do their bidding, turning them into obedient zombie workers. New research takes a closer look at the making of the spider zombies to figure ...

Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave a special web to suspend the wasp pupa just before it finishes killing its spider host. William Eberhard, staff ...

It's all about strategy. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Sometimes, the best way to beat a complicated ambush is to lay a counterambush. A species of parasitic wasps uses ...

The interactions between spider hosts and parasitoid wasps constitute a remarkable example of co‐evolution, where intricate behavioural and physiological modifications underpin the survival strategies ...

A hijacked hormone may zombify spiders, altering their web-spinning behavior to favor wasp parasites. Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave a special ...