This is having a huge ecosystem impact and the native birds have been declining.’ Adult wasps don’t eat the prey they kill - they feed it to their young, known as larvae. Social species capture ...

For Professor Michal Segoli of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, these tiny creatures are a lifelong fascination and the focus of her groundbreaking work. A nature enthusiast since childhood, Segoli ...

Scientists estimate there are probably at least 500,000 species. Unlike true parasites, parasitoid wasps always kill their host and grow into adults that don't live off a host. The Museum has imaged ...

With a rich and well understood natural history and a long tradition of being used to address fundamental issues in development, neuroscience, behaviour, ecology and evolution, social insects are ...

Parasitoid wasps are excellent at destroying other insects that damage crops ... temperature just enough to “bake” their enemy and kill it. Wasps were accidentally introduced into New Zealand ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture continues to wage war on emerald ash borer with the help of stingless wasps. This year the department released over 182,500 wasps in the Twin Cities metro ...

Most wasps are small, solitary and reproduce by laying their eggs in or on other arthropods, particularly insects and spiders. Cynipoidea specialise on fly larvae. As with other parasitoid wasps ...

We are starting to see the most impressive wasp found in Ohio. Eastern cicada killers (Specius speciosus) are large, solitary wasps. The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in North America.