Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars. Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some ...

University of California, Berkeley, biologists have shown that several species of fruit fly have stolen a successful defense from bacteria to survive predation by parasitic wasps, which in some ...

parasites and infectious bacteria lurk at every turn. But one species of caterpillar is thought to be the first recorded self-medicating insect. Becoming an adult butterfly or moth is a high-stakes ...

If the caterpillar is carrying what looks like grains of white rice on its back, it is probably almost or already dead. It ...

First, a female wasp targets one of the spiders and lays an egg on the arachnid. Then, when the egg hatches, the larva latches on to the spider and feeds off of it. This type of parasitic ...

Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp. It injects it's eggs into a host larva (hoverflys), and as the wasp grows it devours the host from the inside out. 😱 #shorts NFL News: Jaguars sign Super Bowl ...

Kolkata: In a significant achievement for biodiversity research, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has identified a new species of parasitic wasp — Ceraphron initium — in Nagaland. The ...