It’s a story as old as animals: A critter uses an anti-predator defense to avoid being eaten. In the case of the Anterhynchium gibbifrons mason wasp, the story has a surprising twist. The male wasps ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Warning: We don’t recommend humans do the same. marcophotos via Getty Nature is all about survival of the fittest. Creatures have to constantly adapt in order ...

When a female mason wasp feels threatened, she jabs her stinger at an attacker, injecting it with a potent venom so she can make her escape. Male wasps lack this defense, because stingers evolved from ...

Fending off an attacker by swordplay with two genital spines turns out to be a moderately useful form of self-defense for male wasps, an unusual study shows. A mason wasp’s rear spikes may be useless ...

Female bees and wasps use modified ovipositors, formerly used in egg laying, to sting their attackers, including people. Now, a study in Current Biology on December 19 shows that male mason wasps use ...

An accidental sting has helped Japanese scientists prove some male wasps have a rather unusual predator defence weapon: penis spikes. While wasps are known for their prickly attacks, only females have ...