Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, sometimes eating them alive. These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, ...

Parasitoid wasps' life cycles can get pretty gruesome (at least from the perspective of their host), with species that use ...

Prior research has shown that there are large numbers of parasitoid species, many of which rely on a host to carry their eggs ...

Less beautiful, however, is how they provide for their offspring. These parasitoid wasps lay their eggs inside other insects. When the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae devour the host insect alive, until ...

By interacting with molecular components, like proteins, that make up insect physiological pathways, parasitoid wasp factors can delay insect host development and suppress host immunity to allow ...

The best-known parasitoids include several species of wasp, which immobilize — but do not kill — a host by stinging it. The female then carries the host to a burrow, where she lays eggs within ...

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Wiliwili is pictured flowering in Kanaio FOREST AND KIM STARR photo Unlike the gladiators, the parasitoid wasp uses only one host to complete its development and is able to live on smaller galls.

The researchers used the new technique to image tiny parasitoid wasps emerging from their host eggs for more than 30 minutes.

Kelsey Coffman receives funding from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). But what may not be clear to the casual beachgoer is that there’s a fight for survival occurring ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kelsey Coffman, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Take a stroll along one ...