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 ...

Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

Braconid, Perilitus coccinellae, and Ichneumon, Megarhyssa macrurus, wasps are valued for destroying harmful caterpillars in your garden. These tiny, parasitic wasps insert their eggs under the ...

This principle is exemplified by fruit flies, which have adopted a defense mechanism from bacteria to help them counter ...

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 ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...

Wasps and flies inject their own eggs into a ... A study found that woolly bear caterpillars suffering from parasitic infection ate more alkaloids than their healthy counterparts. In doing so, they ...

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 ...