It’s a tricky calculus. One parasitic wasp sourced from lanternflies in China has already been excluded from further research ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have studied the strange partnership between ants and seeds. In this relationship, ...

The wasp species Vespula shidai has long been reared for its edible larvae, a delicacy in central Japan.The rural woodlands of Japan which these wasps inhabit are areas of high biodiversity ...

Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

The wasp larvae then burst out of the fly’s abdomen, killing it. The process is detailed in a study published on September 11 in the journal Nature.

Wasps are beneficial pollinators, but they can be dangerous. Learn more about health risks, ... The eggs will hatch into larvae, then pupae, and will finally become adult wasps.

A toddler who was riding his toy car and hit a wasps nest was stung more than 150 times and is fighting for his life.

Social wasp larvae require protein, which adults provide by hunting insects and spiders, sometimes also feeding on pollen. Solitary wasps, like mud daubers and cicada killers, ...

Once clothes moth larvae start eating your favorite garments, they’re tough to get rid of. Tiny parasitoid wasps are here to help – they lay their eggs inside the moth&rsqu ...

The wasp larvae then burst out of the fly’s abdomen, killing it. The […] A team of biologists recently discovered a new parasitic wasp species in the United States that has a unique way of infecting ...