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

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

Aternative solutions are needed to improve animal health and immunity with insect products showing promising results.

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

Today's Bug of the Week has one of the creepiest names all of the insect realm. Chris Thorsteinsson sent in a video of what he identified as a rat-tailed maggot he spotted at his Okanagan home.

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

Aphid-hunting wasps can reproduce with or without sex, challenging previous assumptions. ... Lysiphlebus fabarum wasps only live a few days but spend two weeks developing as larvae on their hosts.

A new study shows that a mother digger wasp (Ammophila pubescens) can remember the locations and feeding history of up to ...

If you garden without pesticides, one of the best ways to manage pests is by keeping your plants healthy and encouraging ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Swarms of “lovebugs” are back in South Korea, blanketing a mountain peak, entering houses and sticking ...

before the developing wasp larvae consumes their host, killing it in the process. Asexual reproduction makes it easy to produce large numbers of wasps, but these need to be suitably adapted to local ...

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.