If this is the case, sirenobethylus charybdis may have written the playbook that cuckoo wasps follow today. Named after the wily cuckoo bird, these emerald-coloured critters lay their eggs in ...

In spring and summer, you might notice white foam on plants that looks like frothy spit on a plant. Reassuringly, it's not spit at all, but foam made by a harmless insect called a froghopper - also ...

Previous research involved a checklist of the cuckoo wasps (Chrysididae) of Pennsylvania (Conrow et al 2016) and an examination of their morphology. At Drexel I am investigating the phylogeny of the ...