Typically when a parasitoid wasp lays eggs in fruit fly larvae or pupae, the eggs hatch and young wasps develop in their host ...

The discovery began unexpectedly in the backyard of Logan Moore, a Ph.D. student working under Ballinger. While searching for ...

A recent study describes a new species of wasp that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies, where the wasp larva grows and ...

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies ...

Researchers in Mississippi discovered Syntretus perlmani, a new wasp species that bursts from adult fruit flies, marking the ...

This wasp, named Syntretus perlmani, lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies, as reported by ...

The team was actually hunting for a different parasite when they made their discovery - screening fruit flies for parasitic worms called nematodes. But spiky-tailed wasp larvae in the abdomens of ...

In a horrific discovery that seems straight out of the science-fiction movie "Alien," researchers have found a new species of ...

Scientists in Mississippi have uncovered a bizarre new wasp species that performs a chilling egg-laying ritual.

Australia's pre-eminent authority on the Gasteruption genus of wasps says the discovery of a new species near Katherine has ...