A small team of biologists at Mississippi State University and the University of Wyoming has found a species of parasitoid wasp that lays its eggs inside of living adult fruit flies. In their ...

charybdis Qiong Wu The researchers think that the wasp likely preyed upon small jumping insects to ... Chrysidoidea displayed a wider range of parasitoid strategies in the mid-Cretaceous than ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

Research out this week details a parasitic wasp preserved in amber for nearly ... charybdis is a member of the parasitoid superfamily of insects called Chrysidoidea, albeit in an entirely new ...

scientists examined 16 female specimens of the wasp, which had been found encased in amber in northern Myanmar. The wasps’ strange abdomens each had three flaps with small spikes and trigger ...

depositing a baby wasp to feed on and drain its new host. "The discovery was truly fascinating!," GAO continued. "It provided key insights into the prey capture strategies of early parasitoid ...

After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens, researchers believe the extinct wasp species featured ... conclusion after observing the parasitoid’s distinct hind wing vein ...

A unique parasitic wasp from 99 million years ago ... find something that remotely resembled this.” While some modern parasitoid wasps exhibit similar behaviors—like cuckoo wasps, which ...