In Peru I dangled a UV light from an old bit of plank to attract nocturnal insects. On the crumbling plank was a mud nest made by a solitary hunting wasp. Needless to say, I carefully removed the nest from the plank to have a better look …
[featured image] Among the huge diversity of insect life there are some bewildering complex life cycles, but there are few that can compete with the trigonalid wasps for the seemingly haphazard way they ensure their genes are passed to the next generation. In most cases, a female parasitoid wasp deposits …