A recently discovered wasp can apparently control the minds of its victims. Euderus set, otherwise known as the crypt-keeper wasp, has the uncanny ability to control the actions of multiple species of ...

Crypt-keeper wasps are masters of manipulation. As researchers reported in 2017, the insect is one of the few parasites capable of altering the behavior of similarly insidious parasites—a practice ...

In 2015, Scott Egan was walking along a Florida beach when he noticed some oak trees with distinctive swellings on their branches. He recognized them as the work of gall wasps—parasitic insects that ...

So far as parasites go, Euderus set is the sort of stuff nightmares, or scary movies, are made of. The newly discovered wasp was named after Set, the Egyptian god of evil and chaos. In Egyptian lore, ...

If there were a horror movie set in the animal kingdom, a turquoise-green insect named the “crypt-keeper wasp” would likely play a starring role. A new study has found that this crafty, parasitic wasp ...

Life cycle of an oak gall wasp (in this case, Callirhytis quercusmodesta; pink), and the crypt keeper wasp, Euderus set (green).Mona Luo Details of methods for the C. quercusmodesta / Euderus ...