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The Toll signaling pathway is the main source of embryonic DV polarity in the fly <i>Drosophila melanogaster.</i> This pathway appears to have been co-opted from an ancestral innate immunity system within the insects and has been deployed in different ways among insect taxa. Here we report the expression and function of homologs of the important components of the <i>D. melanogaster</i> Toll pathway in the wasp <i>Nasonia vitripennis.</i> We found homologs for all the components; many components had one or more additional paralogs in the wasp relative the fly. We also found significant deviations in expression patterns of <i>N. vitripennis</i> homologs. Finally, we provide some preliminary functional analyses of the <i>N. vitripennis</i> homologs, where we find a mixture of conservation and divergence of function.