If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp. Females of the species Ampulex compressa, known also as emerald cockroach wasps, are less than an inch long and decked out in ...

A researcher at Vanderbilt University may have found out how American cockroaches can avoid their own “zombie apocalypse.” Ken Catania, a biologist and professor at the school, videotaped interactions ...

It's Halloween, so prepare to be terrified. And no, this column has nothing to do with Open Enrollment Season. Instead, it relates to the emerald cockroach wasp, a wisp of an insect that you may have ...

Real-life fights against zombie-makers offer plenty of tips for avoiding undeath. Just ask cockroaches, targets of the emerald jewel wasp. The female wasps (Ampulex compressa) specialize in attacking ...

If cockroaches had nightmares, the emerald cockroach wasp surely would deserve a prominent place therein. These colorful, tiny parasitic wasps sting American cockroaches twice, once in the midsection ...

Make no mistake, zombies are very real. Sure, zombies of the human variety aren’t going to wander down your street, The Walking Dead-style, any time soon, but zombies of a different sort are scuttling ...

Getting stung by an emerald cockroach wasp isn’t a fun time, especially if you’re one of the cockroaches that the wasp is notorious for hunting. A single sting can stop a roach in its tracks, with ...

Kung Fu cockroaches may hold a key to salvation during the zombie apocalypse. Just look to their impressive defensive maneuvers. Vanderbilt University biologist Ken Catania in a new report shows ...

A cockroach has been filmed karate kicking a parasitic wasp to save itself from becoming a zombie. Ken Catania, a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, was studying the interactions between ...