Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps ...

By studying them, we’re not just learning about their world; we’re finding ways to make our own world more sustainable," Prof ...

In the intricate tapestry of nature, few threads are as overlooked—yet vital—as insects. For Professor Michal Segoli of ...

The Nebraska Extension held a Crop Production Clinic on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the UNL Panhandle Research Extension and ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture continues to wage war on emerald ash borer with the help of stingless wasps. This year the department released over 182,500 wasps in the Twin Cities metro ...

But research published Thursday (July 29) in Science suggests that not all caterpillars infected with parasitoid wasps will meet the same grisly end. The study identified a new family of ...

Preference tests were conducted with B. argentifolii and its parasitoid Eretmocerus hayati for ten cantaloupe varieties to determine their suitability for use as banker plants. Bemisia argentifolii ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Dec., 2009), pp. 598-600 (3 pages) The parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea uses the calling song of its host Gryllus spp. to locate an area inhabited by potential ...

As far as we know, parasitoid wasps and flies don't attack adult butterflies - they don't generally live very long, so they're not a good food source. 'But every other stage - egg, caterpillar and ...

was controlled by Cactoblastis cactorum, a moth (Wilson & Schwarzlaender 2004). Predator, parasite, and parasitoid insects provide top-down management of herbivore populations (Naylor & Ehrlich 1997).

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps represent approximately 20% of the 1 million insect species on Earth ...

A bright spot in the research is the increase in Bracon spp., a parasitoid wasp and natural predator of the sawfly, is beginning to make a dent in the infestation problem. In the Sidney area and ...