If seed beetles aren’t careful, wasps will invade their eggs and have their own young kill the beetle larvae for nutrients. But these beetles aren’t taking the threat lying down – they’ve developed an ...

Kyle Lombard points out the exit hole from a tetrastichus wasp. Last week, a UPS truck rolled up to an office of the Division of Forests and Lands. Its cargo? A cooler full of Asian wasps from a lab ...

The emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle native to Asia that bores into wood and kills ash trees by eating tissues under ...

Seed beetles often will stack their eggs, using them as shields to protect the bottom egg from attacks by parasitic wasps, reveals new research. They lead modest lives among the palo verde, mesquite ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, a listener on “team wasp” writes in with some interesting info on USDA wasps for pesticide-free pest control and we learn about some wasp versus beetle drama.

Rhode Island scientists released a wasp species meant to attack an invasive beetle species known as the emerald ash borer. According to Burrillville Land Trust President Paul Roselli,the beetle ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have identified a small, parasitic wasp from Taiwan that could help suppress Southern California’s growing polyphagous shot hole borer infestation ...

TOWN OF SAUKVILLE, Wis.—Wisconsin researchers have released tiny parasitic wasps as part of an effort to slow the population growth of a destructive beetle species that has destroyed millions of trees ...

North Carolina is releasing wasps to fight an invasive beetle in ash trees. Forestry officials say the particular species of wasp is a natural enemy of the emerald ash borer. The beetle was first ...

KA’U (HawaiiNewsNow) - Tiny wasps the size of dust particles could be the answer to saving Hawaii Coffee farms. And now UH researchers plan to set a swarm free on Hawaii Island. Tens of thousands of ...

Jul. 16—It's summer. That means, to paraphrase Donovan in a way he wouldn't appreciate, it must be the Season of the Wasp. But before I go further, I'm adding a content warning, at the request of Keri ...

A defenseless insect can gain protection from predators if it evolves to resemble a well-defended species. This evolved similarity is called mimicry, and most familiar are examples of edible ...