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

Agricultural Research Service scientists are using a tiny native wasp to combat the wheat stem sawfly, offering farmers a ...

Gavin explains, 'The spider has got no chance. 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 ...

Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, sometimes eating them alive. These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp, compared to an “alien” predator, was found entirely by chance. Its ability to infect adult flies instead of their vulnerable larvae differentiates it from other ...

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.

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 ...

Wasp size is constrained by aphid size at parasitization and by the aphid's ability to satisfy the nutritional requirements of the growing parasitoid larva. We have developed a model of parasitoid ...