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

Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars ... Broad says, 'Butterfly enthusiasts are often disappointed when a caterpillar becomes a pupa ...

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 ...

A female parasitic wasp (Leptopilina heterotoma) inserts her ovipositor into a Drosophila larva. She will lay an egg in its body cavity. All figures and photographic images will be published under ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495011 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495011 The Scelionidae is a large family of parasitic Hymenoptera whose members specialize in egg ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

Steve Petrovski, Associate Professor in Microbial Genetics in the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment at La Trobe, said his team investigated how this parasitic organism might ...