However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...

The wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis proves that nature’s creativity in predation and survival strategies has been at play for ...

Research, published in BMC Biology, finds that the specimens of Sirenobethylus charybdis—named for the sea monster in Greek mythology which swallowed and disgorged water three times a day—date from ...

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

They’ve named the wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis—a reference to the famous female sea monster of ancient Greek legend. The bug and its unique appearance likely represents a previously unknown ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

Specimens of Sirenobethylus charybdis, or S. charybdis, named after the Greek mythological sea monster Charybdis, would use their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilize their prey ...

The previously unknown species, now named Sirenobethylus charybdis, had a Venus flytrap-like structure on its abdomen that could have allowed it to trap other insects, the researchers reported ...

Scientists discovered an ancient wasp species, Sirenobethylus charybdis, preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar. The wasp's structure resembles a Venus flytrap, believed to have been used ...