A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

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

The focus of my research is on insect parasitoids and biological control of agricultural pests. I use aphids and their hymenopteran parasitoids as model systems to quantify parasitoid attributes and ...

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

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps represent approximately 20% of the 1 million insect species on Earth ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Florida Entomologist Vol. 85, No. 4, Dec., 2002 Eclosion, Mating, and Grooming Behavior ... Eclosion, Mating, and Grooming Behavior of the ...

The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...