A total of 17 new genera and 29 new species of parasitoid wasps were identified following a study into the material deposited at major natural history collections around the globe in an attempt to further uncover the megadiverse ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 25, 2018
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Hillary Peterson is every brown marmorated stink bug's worst nightmare.
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2018
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A damaging bacteria with an uncanny ability to pass itself from insect mothers to eggs meets its genomic match in a tiny variety of parasitic wasp, a recent discovery by Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Seth Bordenstein ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2018
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Have you ever had to shout to call your family to the dinner table?
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2018
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A team of researchers with members from Poland, Australia and the U.S. has found that some types of clearwing moths fly like bees to avoid predators. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes ...
It is well known that certain wasps suppress the immune systems of their caterpillar hosts so they can successfully raise their young within those hosts. Now researchers at Penn State show that, in addition to suppressing ...
Ecology
May 1, 2018
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As well as an interest in all insects, Flinders biological sciences Ph.D. Ben Parslow has a fascination for wasps.
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Feb 19, 2018
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After being stung by a parasitic wasp, the American cockroach loses control of its behavior, becoming host to the wasp's egg. Days later, the hatchling consumes the cockroach alive. While this is a gruesome process for the ...
Biochemistry
Feb 7, 2018
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About the size of a sesame seed, a new species of wasp from Costa Rica, named Dendrocerus scutellaris, has elaborate branched antennae that could be used for finding mates. Or hosts.
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Jan 31, 2018
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A new Drexel University study comparing brain size to body size shows that just because you've evolved to have a big brain, some regions of your brain may not have kept up.
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2018
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