Gavin Broad: "Wasps are the lions of the insect world" It's the parasitoid wasps that do this work for us and their methods - like those of Ampulex compressa - are often ingenious. I'm fascinated ...

New Zealand has some of the highest numbers of wasps in the world, and is now taking action to tackle them by introducing two insects from Europe. The hover fly and wasp-nest beetle were given the ...