A newly identified parasitic wasp, compared to an “alien” predator, was found entirely by chance. Its ability to infect adult ...

Releasing 10,000 of microscopic wasps into a home may not sound like the most obvious way to tackle a moth infestation, but ...

Emerald ash borer has been confirmed in three new Minnesota counties that will lead to an expanded quarantine.

Even if you took the larva away, it wouldn't recover.' 'It would remain in a state of suspended animation for quite a while, until eventually its respiration would stop.' Only the wasps' larvae are ...

These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, caterpillar or pupa. Parasitoids start their lives as parasites, in or on the body of a host, but they end up as predators, eating the ...

The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae fed on the insides of this hornworm, have now completed that feeding, and are preparing to emerge as tiny wasps.

japonica injects venom and an egg into the host larva. The imaginal discs are degraded by venom proteins called IDDFs, which prevent the host from undergoing metamorphosis. The wasp larva consumes ...

The larvae belong to a type of wasp called parasitoids, whose young dine on the flesh of hosts their parents pick out for them. But research published Thursday (July 29) in Science suggests that not ...