The agriculture authorities in Ben Tre Province, southern Vietnam have released 285 million parasitic wasps into the ...

A new study from the University of Haifa – Oranim Campus, published in the prestigious scientific journal Current Biology, identified an unusual mechanism for the transmission of symbiotic bacteria ...

When the wasp stings a developing fly pupa, the bacterium travels with the venom. The wasp then lays its egg on the pupa, and the hatching larva consumes the pupa, along with the bacteria.

These eating machines eventually transform into pupae and then into new adults that continue the cycle. But that is not the end of the story. Besides upcycling organic waste, the Black Soldier Fly ...

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Here, we identify two H1 variants (PpH1V1 and PpH1V2) that are specifically predominantly expressed in the testis of the parasitoid wasp Pteromalus puparum. Evolutionary analyses suggest that these H1 ...

When you see a wasp flying toward you, what do you do? Most people’s first instinct is to run away screaming, and it’s easy to see why. They inflict a vicious sting, and some pack so much venom that ...