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 ...

Identifying the flesh-eating parasite, which actually isn't a worm, is key to keeping it out of the U.S. Recognizing a ...

Swarms of “lovebugs” are back in South Korea, blanketing a mountain peak, entering houses and sticking to car windows. Flying attached to one another while ...

The bugs have been spreading in a popular tourist area. Experts issue warning as dangerous wasp-like insects spread in US — ...

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

A: The damage is actually caused by the larvae of a sawfly insect. They are commonly called rose slugs. The sawfly adult looks like a small black to yellow wasp. The female adult lays eggs on the ...

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 ...

A survey on larvae of Japanese wasps revealed that not only is their diet more diverse than previously thought, it also showed that wild colonies prey on more species of vertebrates than had been ...

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 ...

This newly found wasp, named Syntretus perlmani, is the first known to infect adult fruit flies, a stark contrast to related wasp species that usually target the larvae and pupae stages of flies.