A newly identified parasitic wasp, compared to an “alien” predator, was found entirely by chance. Its ability to infect adult ...

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

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 ...

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 respiration would stop.' Only the wasps' larvae are ...

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.

Adult wasps don’t eat the prey they kill - they feed it to their young, known as larvae. Social species capture insects, chop them up and carry parts back to the nest. Some solitary species are more ...

creating a suitable environment for feeding wasp larvae. Because these wasps show large shifts in their host preferences, their venom repertoires are under pressure to quickly evolve and adopt novel ...

Typically, the male wasps are smaller than the females. They overwinter as larvae in the soil, and the adults emerge in mid-June to early July. This emergence usually corresponds to the emergence ...