Adult wasps don’t eat the prey they kill - they feed it to their young, known as larvae. Social species capture insects, chop them up and carry parts back to the nest. Some solitary species are more ...

The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae fed on the insides of this hornworm, have now completed that feeding, and are preparing to emerge as tiny wasps.

The larvae belong to a type of wasp called parasitoids, whose young dine on the flesh of hosts their parents pick out for them. But research published Thursday (July 29) in Science suggests that not ...

Even if you took the larva away, it wouldn't recover.' 'It would remain in a state of suspended animation for quite a while, until eventually its respiration would stop.' Only the wasps' larvae are ...

An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the ...

Of the top 50 invertebrate prey species that the team identified, 43 are known to visit flowers. Europe’s top three main crop ...

creating a suitable environment for feeding wasp larvae. Because these wasps show large shifts in their host preferences, their venom repertoires are under pressure to quickly evolve and adopt novel ...