Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars. Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some ...

Becoming an adult butterfly or moth is a high-stakes obstacle course. One of the biggest threats a caterpillar faces is the risk of being parasitized. Wasps and flies inject their own eggs into a ...

There's even a wasp that will lay its egg inside the larva of another wasp that's already inside a caterpillar, he tells me. That sounds a bit like an entomologist's Christmas dinner: a duck ...

Social wasps are predators and as such they play a vital ecological role, controlling the numbers of potential pests like greenfly and many caterpillars. Indeed, it has been estimated that the ...

These wasps lay their eggs inside the larvae, or maggots, and remain there until the larvae turn into immobile pupae, at which point the wasp eggs mature into wasp larvae that consume the fly pupa ...

While wasps are also important to the natural environment, their predation on monarch butterfly caterpillars means that only very few survive. If you want to protect monarch butterflies in your ...

Hold a piece of white paper against the plant. Tomato branches with missing leaves will be evident. Once large caterpillars are found, they are often parasitized by tiny braconid wasps. The cocoons of ...

How Can Tomato Hornworms Help Your Garden? Hornworms serve as host caterpillars for female braconid wasps which seek them out ...