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.

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 ...

While doing some gardening last summer, I noticed a tiny mud structure attached to the branch of a serviceberry tree. First of all, I was impressed with myself that I even saw it, and secondly, that I ...

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 ...

The Museum of Natural History in Berlin recently allowed its patrons to name one of its henceforth unnamed wasp species. The name the public chose was Ampulex dementor, either out out of Harry Potter ...

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Say “hello” to the artist in your garden if you see a little black and white wasp, no bigger than an inch. It’s probably a potter wasp and true to its name, the female builds miniature clay pots to ...

A group of 300 museum visitors voted to name a new species of cockroach wasps the Ampulex Dementor. The name is inspired by the Dementors from the magical world of Harry Potter, Mugglenet reports. The ...