“No parasitoid wasp has been known to infect the adult stage of not just Drosophila, but of flies in general.” Matthew Ballinger This embryo then hatches into a tiny spiky-tailed ...

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Who needs a horror movie when you’ve got tarantula hawks? These wasps paralyze tarantulas so the still-living spider can ...

The wasp larva grows inside the fly and then rips the fly open when it emerges, a recent study described. Known as Syntretus perlmani the adult wasp lives throughout the eastern U.S., with the ...

The Wilkins’ Bunting birds, a rare species living on the Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic, won’t go extinct anytime ...

(Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) The larva stays on its host’s stomach, sucking its blood for several weeks until it is ready to pupate, the next stage in the insect’s development toward adulthood. To ...

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 ...

Mississippi State University research was featured on the cover of the British scientific journal Nature this week after ...

Plus, there is a lot of nutritional value in these insects. Mealworms, another form of insect larva, provide more protein than chicken or salmon, according to Terro’s research. Aphids are tiny ...

We take a look at the last few weeks of the summer season for wasps — which, for almost all of them, is also the last few weeks of their lives.

From galactic rocks, to parasitoid wasps, Olympians have left a mark on the world well after their exploits at the Olympic ...

F RUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term ...