Like a mindless zombie controlled by a menacing overlord, the spider scampers back and forth, reinforcing its silky web. Not long from now, the subservient arachnid will be dead, its web transformed ...

Insect turns arachnid into a zombie, forces it to build its most protective web The spiders build delicate round webs to catch prey. But that changes after an adult R. nielseni wasp stings a spider, ...

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 ...

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There’s nothing subtle about the way in which the Reclinervellus nielseni wasp larva takes control of the Cyclosa argenteoalba spider’s nervous system. First, an adult female wasp must attack a spider ...

Viewers were paralyzed with fear. An Arizona biologist sent shudders across social media after showcasing the scary, incapacitating effects of a spider wasp’s sting — which can immobilize its victims ...

Not content with giving us snakes eating each other, or exceptionally giant spiders who eat mice, nature has plenty more frightening animal-on-animal oddities to throw up. Take for example this orange ...

The world’s oldest spider has died at the age of 43 after being subdued by a parasitic wasp in the Australian outback, according to the Independent. Number 16, as researchers knew the female Giaus ...

Throughout Australia, a tiny wasp stings and paralyzes redback spiders before laying an egg that develops into a larva and slowly devours the dangerous arachnids, Australian researchers have announced ...

A wasp collected on Captain Cook’s voyage in 1770, but largely forgotten since, has been found to prey on redback spiders. NOTORIOUS REDBACK SPIDERS are one of the more dangerous species in Australia, ...

Like a mindless zombie controlled by a menacing overlord, the spider scampers back and forth, reinforcing its silky web. Not long from now, the subservient arachnid will be dead, its web transformed ...

Matthew Wilkinson is Movie/TV Features Staff Writer at Game Rant with over a decade of experience writing for various publications. Throughout his career he has covered some of the biggest events in ...