MSU researchers reared and released a small number of samba wasps in 2022. The wasps were released in “postharvest scenarios” in the wooded edges of cherry and blueberry plantings, where SWD often ...

More information: Logan D. Moore et al, Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies, Nature ...

Wiliwili is pictured flowering in Kanaio FOREST AND KIM STARR photo Unlike the gladiators, the parasitoid wasp uses only one host to complete its development and is able to live on smaller galls.

Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, sometimes eating them alive. These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, ...

Gavin Broad: "Wasps are the lions of the insect world" It's the parasitoid wasps that do this work for us and their methods - like those of Ampulex compressa - are often ingenious. I'm fascinated ...

This image shows a female specimen of the new parasitoid wasp species Idris brevicornis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Many wasps take advantage of fresh food sources in their natural environment, such as other insects and spiders. Parasitoid wasps use other insects as hosts for their offspring, eating them alive and ...

Parasitoid wasps of the genus Aphidius are beneficial insects in agroecosystems and play an important role in the biological control of cereal aphids; economically important pests that threaten the ...

Some wasp species respond to host scarcity by resorbing mature eggs and by varying the rate of egg maturation. The second area of research is concerned with the nutritional ecology of aphid ...

Fruit flies wreak havoc on crops in Hawaii, but a type of parasitoid wasp armed with a biological weapon has helped keep the pests at bay. Research shows wasps are active and useful predators of ...