Sirenobethylus charybdis lived nearly 99 million years ago and used its unique abdominal apparatus to trap prey during ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...

Prior research has shown that there are large numbers of parasitoid species, many of which rely on a host to carry their eggs for them. A large number of wasp species lay their eggs in fruit fly ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

In an initial 3-hour lab, students first design experiments to examine intraspecific and interspecific competition using two species of parasitoid wasps. Second, students are guided to a consensus ...

Museum scientists described 351 new species in 2022. The list of new species includes this minute parasitoid Megaphragma wasps. © Andrew Polaszek Museum scientists ...