A research team offer evidence that behavioral changes of a host are beneficial to the parasite in the field. They studied a moth, the caterpillars of which can be parasitized by an insect parasitoid ...

We humans have our fair share of parasites, some annoying, some dangerous. Common parasitic predators include bed bugs, lice, roundworms, tapeworms and ticks. Some of these and others can cause ...

Parasitoid larvae that feed within caterpillars that eat cabbage plants influence the plant via the caterpillar, making the cabbage plant an unattractive prospect for moths looking for a spot to lay ...

Parasitoid wasps, which have larvae that grow in or on other organisms and eventually kill their hosts, are widely recognized for their vast biodiversity and fascinating ecology. Syntretus perlmani, ...

Those who observe nature for a living are bound to happen upon captivating discoveries. For a team of North American researchers, that apparently meant identifying 21 distinct parasitoid wasp species ...

The study, published online Tuesday in Nature Communications, is the accumulation of over a century of work. The prehistoric fly pupae were discovered at the end of the 19th century, but according to ...

Data and methodology -- Parasitoid species richness -- Host mortality -- Parasitoid impact -- Independent variables -- Dependent variables -- Statistical analysis ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 96, No. 2 (June, 2013), pp. 451-457 (7 pages) Biological control using an ectoparasitic idiobiont (e.g., Pachycrepoideus vindemmiae Rondani) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) ...

Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in or on their hosts. The wasps' larvae then consume the host, sometimes from the inside out. Parasitoid wasps can be found on every single continent except Antarctica.