The agriculture authorities in Ben Tre Province, southern Vietnam have released 285 million parasitic wasps into the ...

Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars. Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some ...

The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...

A team of researchers at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) are using 2500 wasps imported from Chile as their ...

Read more: Grow These Plants To Help Keep Spiders Far Away From Your Home With this understanding in place regarding why the wasps attack the monarch caterpillars, it's time to work on how to keep ...

tI’s a scene straight out of your worst nightmare: dozens of tiny, milky larvae wriggle out of their still-living caterpillar host, leaving behind the scarred, gaping holes from whence they emerged.

One class of such wasps, braconid wasps, insert bracoviruses along with their eggs to suppress the host caterpillar’s immune response, which would otherwise attack the parasite’s eggs and destroy them ...