Without intervention, hornworm caterpillars can severely damage your tomato crop, reducing your harvest significantly. Hornworm caterpillar with wasp cocoon on its body. Image by PatMorgan via Pixabay ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the relentless battle between parasites and their hosts, nature often finds innovative solutions. Sometimes, however, borrowing proven strategies can trump the invention of new ones. This principle ...

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 ...

Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made ...

Kolkata, Dec 14 (PTI) Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered five different species of parasitic wasp, an official said. ZSI scientists have identified Ceraphron initium, a ...

A new species of parasitic wasp has been discovered in Nagaland by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). Dr Rameshkumar Anandan discovered the species, and rigorous morphological analyses, conducted ...

Kolkata: Scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered five different species of parasitic wasp, an official said. ZSI scientists have identified Ceraphron initium, a new species ...