Evie introduces us to the gold-marked thread-waisted wasp. During late summer and early fall we see many wasps. One of the most common solitary wasps takes skinny to the extreme. Evie introduces us to ...

MERCED -- A study on the wrinkles on a wasp's waist began with the slap of a textbook. And it turned into a first-place award for a University of California at Merced bioengineering graduate student.

Making headlines, 33-year-old Miami-based model Aleira Avendano has taken on the dizzying challenge of achieving the world's smallest waist. Her spectacular transformation, the result of colossal ...

Key to the evolution of certain insects was a change from feeding on plants to laying eggs on or in the bodies of other arthropods. The eggs hatch and the larvae eat their host from the inside, ...