Spring can be a busy time in our gardens. The emerging green shoots and blooming bulbs always lift the spirits, and there's ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Wasps hunt other insects as sustenance, making them natural pest controllers. Because of this, if you have an aphid, ...

The article highlights the role of various insects like flies, beetles, and wasps in pollination, which is crucial for the reproduction of flowering plants. Bees are well-known pollinators, but other ...

The list of insect pollinators is long and includes many different species of bees, flies, wasps, beetles, butterflies and moths. Even species with a bad reputation such as houseflies and mosquitoes ...

Studying C. maculate-D. coccinellae interactions in the lab, Dheilly and her colleagues found that the onset of beetle behavioral modification occurred long after the bite and oviposition by the wasp.

Paper wasps also use the caterpillars as food for their larvae in nest cells containing the wasp's eggs. Eggs and small larvae are attacked by lady beetles, minute pirate bugs, green lacewing larvae, ...

As the invasive pest continues to do damage to vast swaths of local farmers coffee farms, agricultural officials are proposing the use of a parasitoid wasp to control the beetle. — Photo ...

From a menacing beetle to a mummified wasp, all photos in this story are courtesy of the competition. A parasitoid braconid wasp (Braconidae) attacked this sycamore aphid (Drepanosiphum ...