By studying them, we’re not just learning about their world; we’re finding ways to make our own world more sustainable," Prof ...

The Nebraska Extension held a Crop Production Clinic on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the UNL Panhandle Research Extension and ...

For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the ...

Parasitoid wasps are fascinating insects that lay their eggs inside or on the bodies of other insects, known as hosts. This unique reproductive strategy allows the wasps to exploit their hosts for ...

But research published Thursday (July 29) in Science suggests that not all caterpillars infected with parasitoid wasps will meet the same grisly end. The study identified a new family of ...

As far as we know, parasitoid wasps and flies don't attack adult butterflies - they don't generally live very long, so they're not a good food source. 'But every other stage - egg, caterpillar and ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3494712 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3494712 The existence of semiochemicals that influence the host selection behavior of several fall ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Dec., 2009), pp. 598-600 (3 pages) The parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea uses the calling song of its host Gryllus spp. to locate an area inhabited by potential ...

was controlled by Cactoblastis cactorum, a moth (Wilson & Schwarzlaender 2004). Predator, parasite, and parasitoid insects provide top-down management of herbivore populations (Naylor & Ehrlich 1997).

Parasitoid wasps, a megadiverse group within the insect order Hymenoptera, are essential for maintaining ecological balance and pest control. Parasitoids attack and kill an astonishing range of ...

TIRUPATTUR: Coconut cultivation spanning across 10,500 acres in Tirupattur district is severely affected by black-headed caterpillars, as per farmers. As many a ...

A bright spot in the research is the increase in Bracon spp., a parasitoid wasp and natural predator of the sawfly, is beginning to make a dent in the infestation problem. In the Sidney area and ...