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Whether a die-hard Harry Potter fan or not, you probably know what dementors are. They were the guards of Azkaban—dark hooded evil beings that sucked the soul out of their victims, leaving them alive ...

After a round of public voting, a newly-discovered Thai wasp species has officially been named Ampulex dementor, inspired by the soul-sucking dementors in Harry Potter. Dementors — for those who don’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

A newly discovered species of wasp has been named after the dementor characters in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The Ampulex dementor wasp from Thailand paralyses its prey with venom before eating ...

A Harry Potter fan has named a wasp after the 'redeemed' villain Lucius Malfoy to show the insects are not as bad as we think. The harmless wasp Lusius malfoyi lives in New Zealand and is known for ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you put the naming of a newly-discovered creature up for popular vote, you can never quite be sure what you're going to get. Such is the case in Berlin, where a new species of wasp has been named ...