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

Researchers in Mississippi have discovered a previously unknown species of parasitoid wasp that matures inside the bodies of living, adult fruit flies before bursting out of them like a xenomorph ...

No parasitoid wasp has been known to infect the adult stage of not just Drosophila, but of flies in general.” He claimed that ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered parasitizing adult fruit flies – the first of its kind ever documented. Parasitoid wasps' life cycles can get pretty gruesome (at least from the ...

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.

One of the world's rarest birds has been handed a much-needed lifeline by a small parasitoid wasp species. This was part of a ...

Associate Professor Matthew Ballinger’s article “Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies” in the world’s leading science journal highlights the discovery of a new ...

How can you capture the essence of nature’s cycles of death and rebirth in your Halloween celebrations? Halloween traditions ...

Because the soil has been so dry, not all of the rainfall we have recently received has infiltrated into the soil. Depending ...

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, ...

To control the infestation, the groups introduced parasitoid wasps known as Microterys nietneri to the isolated island to combat the scale insects. “This project shows what can be achieved in ...