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 ...

Both native predators, such as ladybirds, hoverflies and lacewings, and an introduced parasite attack woolly aphids. The introduced parasite, a tiny wasp (Aphelinus mali), now lives wild in southern ...

A single wasp colony in your back garden could be removing as many as 250,000 aphids during a season ... tiny minority cause us trouble. In the UK it is just two species of what are known as ...

didactylus (Latreille) (the "changa") in Puerto Rico, are being managed with an entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema scapterisci (Nguyen and Smart) (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae), and a parasitic ...

Insects are the champion users of pheromones ... Dr Aradottir demonstrates this in action using parasitic wasps. This clip is from the The Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - The Language ...