Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp. It injects it's eggs into a host larva (hoverflys), and as the wasp grows it devours the host from the inside out.  #shorts ...

Swarms of parasitic wasps will descend upon Kona coffee farms this spring as a long-gestating plan to control an invasive ...

Giant planets orbiting close to their stars were thought to boot other planets out of their star system on the way in, but ...

turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by stealing a gene from bacteria that originated in bacteriophage. Biologists ...

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The species has fangs that produce a painful bite, like a wasp sting, resulting in a range of unpleasant symptoms that can ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

"Our paper is one of the first ones to show, at least in Drosophila, that this type of immune response might be a common mechanism by which natural enemies like wasps and nematodes are dealt with.

With freezing temperatures sweeping across Acadiana, experts are urging homeowners to take a few extra precautions before ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

"Our paper is one of the first ones to show, at least in Drosophila, that this type of immune response might be a common mechanism by which natural enemies like wasps and nematodes are dealt with.

Wasps are intelligent and complex. But can you wait for them to die out? Wasps can be a deceptively tricky pest to deal with. While they can be great pollinators for the garden, if you’re ...