Purdue Landscape Report: Now that we’ve reach midsummer, many people tending to small plants and bushes may notice small odd round grey objects attached to their plants that are made by potter wasps.

At first, I wasn’t sure what they were: Four tiny round structures firmly attached to a thin willow twig in shallow water. Nests, I presumed, belonging to some sort of insect. The dwellings – if ...

A biologist in New Zealand wants to clean up the image of wasps -- by naming one after Lucius Malfoy, one of Harry Potter's arch-enemies in the fantasy fiction series. Lusius malfoyi, the newly ...

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Branding can get you everywhere, even if you’re just a bug. Boy, does the “Ampulex dementor” wasp know it. Over a year ago, officially, no one was aware that it even existed. But on Wednesday, Harry ...

Attention, Newt Scamander and anyone cataloguing the world's fantastic beasts: A newly discovered wasp has been named after an iconic Harry Potter villain, and for a really interesting reason. Tom ...