Found only in Costa Rica, the Hymenoepimecis argyra parasite wasp doesn’t just kill orb spiders. It also takes over the spiders’ minds and forces them to do its bidding. Also known as the “zombie wasp ...

Found only in Costa Rica, the Hymenoepimecis argyra parasite wasp doesn’t just kill orb spiders. It also takes over the spiders’ minds and forces them to do its bidding. Also known as the “zombie wasp ...

Walking dead. The manipulative relationship between the wasp and the spider begins when a female wasp attacks the orb weaver in its web. She deposits her egg onto the back of the spider's abdomen ...

In Japan, for instance, female Reclinervellus nielseni wasps are known to snatch orb-weaving spiders, lay eggs on the arachnids and fly away. The spiders continue with life as usual—until the ...

Lowe and her colleagues searched for golden orb-weaving spiders in 20 sites around Sydney with varying degrees of urbanization—parks, ... like wasps and other spiders.

A normal web of the orb weaving spider A. bifurca. “Spinning under the influence” is one way to describe recent activities in the Costa Rican laboratory of Smithsonian scientist William Eberhard. An ...

That's the case for the orb-weaving spider and parasitic wasp of Japan. Researchers in that country want to find out how R. nielseni controls C. argenteoalba.