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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The newly found wasp appears to be common in the eastern United States, and inflicts Lynchian body horror onto its hosts.

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

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

Other parasitic wasp species only target fruit flies during their early larva and pupa life stages. S. perlmani use their needle-like ovipositor organ to stab into a fruit fly's abdomen and ...

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