Parasitoids start their lives as parasites, in or on the body of a host ... A butterfly egg is tiny, but wasps can still develop inside it. When a wasp larva finds itself nestled inside a butterfly ...

The discovery occurred in March 2023 when the team was examining fruit flies for parasitic worms and noticed a strange wasp ...

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 ...

The first complete 3D reconstruction of the compound eye of a minute wasp species sheds light on the nuts and bolts of size reduction.

Parasitoid is the name given to insects that behave like parasites but always kill their host. Farmers take advantage of the fact that certain parasitoids naturally prey on particular species of crop ...

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps represent approximately 20% of the 1 million insect species on Earth, making them ...

Other parasitic wasp species only target fruit flies during their early larva and pupa life stages. S. perlmani use their needle-like ovipositor organ to stab into a fruit fly's abdomen and ...

John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...

The wasps, when released, should lay eggs in the bodies of the borers. When the eggs hatch, the larvae consume the borer, quickly mature and seek more borers to parasitize. The process has been ...