The outside world was too dangerous for me. The issue started with a seemingly innocuous wasp sting. I became a prisoner in my own home after getting stung in 2018, when I was 36 years old.

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

Despite its name, the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) is not only implicated in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a rare genetic disease characterized by low platelet count, eczema and recurrent ...

A media tycoon has told of the terrible moment his wife collapsed in front of him at the breakfast table after being stung on the finger by a wasp. Jane Murray-Obodynski, 50, spent three years in ...

Parasitoid wasps use venom to alter the metabolism, immunity, and behavior of their insect hosts, creating a suitable environment for feeding wasp larvae. Because these wasps show large shifts in ...

A man is in critical condition in hospital after he was stung by a swarm of wasps in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). It is understood that the attack happened in the Lions River area when a delivery vehicle ...

A retired jockey who spent 20 years riding thoroughbreds has died after she was stung by a wasp in her backyard. Julie Murphy, 56, from Ipswich in Queensland's south-east, was stung last week ...

For example, most spider wasps, such as the tarantula hawk, paralyse arachnid prey using a venomous sting. Their larvae then eat the victim alive. There are almost 5,000 species of spider wasp ...