Taking a look at the waste ground on the eastern edge of Liskeard ...

Skeleton weed is a serious problem which can significantly reduce grain crop yields. Together with the Department of Primary ...

These hatch into larvae that burrow out, turn into wasps and fly off, carrying fig pollen with them. If the wasp climbs into a female fig, she pollinates it, but cannot lay her eggs and just dies ...

These tiny passengers were wasp eggs and larvae sitting inside weevils, which upon arrival in New Zealand would become soldiers in a war against entrenched agricultural pests that has saved the ...

Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named, thanks to new research. The study nearly doubles the number of known species in this genus of wasps. Twenty-two new species of ...

Tarantulas have very few natural enemies, but one of their biggest threats comes from parasitic pepsis wasps, which could paralyse the spider and lay eggs on it. Its larvae then feed on the living ...

Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany ...

A parasitic outbreak that left at least 10 people ... Meat tainted with roundworm larvae, which are commonly found in carnivorous and omnivorous animals, cause Trichinellosis, according to the ...

The deliberate introduction of a species of parasitoid wasp is aiding the survival of an endemic bird in Tristan da Cunha. Surveys before 2019 found there were only 120 breeding pairs of Wilkins's ...

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland have issued a major food recall. In a statement on their website this week, they warned people not to consume a product due to the possible presence of larvae.

Of those 22 who reported dining on the underdone meat, 10 experienced the signs and symptoms of trichinellosis, a disease caused by the larvae of parasitic roundworms of the genus Trichinella.