When the latter are ready, the fig emits an aroma to attract the female of its specific wasp species looking to lay eggs. When she enters through a miniscule opening, her wings and antennae break off.

Because these flowers bloom inside the fig pod, they present a unique challenge: How to pollinate them? Enter the wasps. Female wasps venture inside the fig flower to lay their eggs. This symbiotic ...

Female fig wasps enter a fig through a small opening called the ostiole to lay their eggs. As they enter, they also carry pollen from the fig where they were born. When the wasp moves around ...

These wasps lay their eggs inside the larvae, or maggots, and remain there until the larvae turn into immobile pupae, at which point the wasp eggs mature into wasp larvae that consume the fly pupa ...

A female wasp squeezes into a small opening in the fig flower to lay her eggs, and in doing so, her wings and antennae often break off, leaving her unable to exit. She dies inside the fig ...

Two early-stage wasp larvae removed from a fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that had been parasitized by the wasp Leptopilina boulardi. The fly expressed the fusionB gene that UC Berkeley ...

The cysts are the remains of wasp eggs that the fly successfully suppressed, thanks to the insertion of a toxin gene that originated in a bacteriophage. In the continual arms race between ...

Are eggs bad for your heart? Dr. Jeremy London, a cardiovascular surgeon in Savannah, Georgia, posed the question to more than one million of his followers on social media. His answer may be ...

"Healthy diets are made up of a variety of food groups and nutrients, and the ‘healthy’ claim can help consumers identify those foods that are the foundation of healthy dietary patterns," the ...