A new species of wasp has been discovered parasitizing adult fruit flies – the first of its kind ever documented. Parasitoid ...

The discovery began unexpectedly in the backyard of Logan Moore, a Ph.D. student working under Ballinger. While searching for ...

According to Tia, “In addition to the usual caterpillar predators like birds, spiders, and ants, black swallowtail larvae can ...

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living ... how The researchers were screening fruit flies for parasitic worms called nematodes in March 2023 when ...

Parasitic wasps lay their eggs in or on a live host ... inflict their Lovecraftian abominations on a wide variety of insects, including some non-fly adults. One example the researchers pointed ...

In a horrific discovery that seems straight out of the science-fiction movie "Alien," researchers have found a new species of ...

Scientists have accidentally discovered a previously unknown species of parasitic wasp that ... fly's abdomen and deposit an egg inside. The egg then hatches into a wasp larva, which grows inside ...

“We are investigating a hyper-diverse group of insects called gall wasps and the parasitic wasps that attack the gall wasps. The parasites lay their eggs inside other wasp species and then the ...

Sep. 9, 2024 — Dangerous mixtures: pesticides in combination can have unexpected effects on the development of honeybees. This is shown by a new study in which the last neonicotinoid still ...

The egg grows for about 18 days ... is filled with examples of parasitic species, with most parasitic wasps targeting juvenile insects. Thus, the discovery with S. perlmani is notable.

It lays its eggs inside the bee's nest ... understood relationship between these parasitic wasps and the bees they target. "Like many Australian insects, we actually don't have a lot of ...