Exceptionally preserved fossils of insect cocoons have allowed researchers in Argentina to describe how wasps played an important role in food webs devoted to consuming rotting dinosaur eggs.

Pesky wasps once fed upon the insects gorging on rotting dinosaur eggs some 70 million years ago, suggests a new finding of ancient wasp cocoons hidden inside the fossilized egg of a titanosaur ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

Have you ever heard of the unique cabbage tree emperor moth? Learn all about the caterpillar stage of this moth's lifespan.

Pesky wasps once fed upon the insects gorging on rotting dinosaur eggs some 70 million years ago, suggests a new finding of ancient wasp cocoons hidden inside the fossilized egg of a titanosaur ...

Pesky wasps once fed upon the insects gorging on rotting dinosaur eggs some 70 million years ago, suggests a new finding of ancient wasp cocoons hidden inside the fossilized egg of a titanosaur ...

Larvae of some paper wasp species use mysteriously fluorescent silk to weave the container in which they mature to adulthood. By Cara Giaimo Adult paper wasps are capable builders, painstakingly mouth ...

Floridians are trying to readjust to some hairy new friends — but they won't be around for long. The Tussock moth caterpillars, a type of insect which has spiky hairs that can cause irritation, are ...