They have blanketed trees in the Chinese capital and surrounding areas this summer, posing a threat to hundreds of species of ...

A species of parasitic wasp has evolved one of the strangest survival strategies in the insect world, turning its caterpillar host into a living bodyguard for its own young. The wasp, from the genus ...

If you’ve been looking for your daily dose of insect horror, look no further than wasps in the Glyptapanteles genus. Females ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A particularly gruesome example of insect zombification occurs when parasitic wasps lay their eggs inside caterpillars. The larvae ...

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For the last three decades, scientists in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), a roughly 1000-square-kilometer chunk of forest in northwestern Costa Rica, have been inventorying and rearing ...

Parasitoid wasps sometimes lay eggs in unsuitable host insects, a behavior that has traditionally been considered accidental. However, researchers at the University of Tsukuba have discovered that ...