Watching fights between creatures in the wild can be an interesting insight into how they attack opponents and defend ...

“Just like bees, they visit flowers to get nectar. Although they hunt, the prey is for their offspring, it’s not for the ...

This group is only previously known to be parasites of bees or wasp adults, while other species turn spiders into their slaves. This represents the first case of parasitism between an adult fly ...

Adult female parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in the bodies of host arthropods. The offspring develop inside the host, eventually killing it as they emerge as adults. In complex environments, adult ...

Parasitoids are organisms that lay their eggs in or on the bodies of other organisms. The eggs then develop, eventually killing the host. It’s the “eventually” part that makes this lifestyle so ...

In West Bengal, India, researchers searched for spider egg sacs. Joy Amed via Unsplash Across the regions of West Bengal, India, a group of researchers were on the hunt for the egg sacs of spiders ...

The female wasps excavate the shallow burrows with their legs, place a paralyzed spider into the burrow, lay a single egg on the spider (usually on the spider’s abdomen) and then cover over and ...

In West Bengal, India, researchers searched for spider egg sacs. Joy Amed via Unsplash Across the regions of West Bengal, India, a group of researchers were on the hunt for the egg sacs of spiders ...