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

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

but their natural history tells us how beetles like this one with its bizarre, antler-like lobes thrived in the amber forest. Though social wasps are one of its prey, such beetles do not have to ...

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.

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 ...