A large number of wasp species lay their eggs in fruit fly larvae or pupae. In such instances, the eggs remain dormant in the host for a certain period of time as they mature and then begin eating ...

When the team looked in the traps, they found two species of parasitic wasps: T. drosophilae, which parasitises fruit fly pupae (the stage just before they become an adult), and Asobara japonica ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture Wednesday conducted the state’s first release of stingless wasps as a biological control in an effort to slow the spread of emerald ash borer in Minnesota.

Photo courtesy of USDA/UH-Manoa Maui coffee farmers are “cautiously optimistic” about the proposed use of a parasitoid wasp in Hawaii to help control the invasive coffee berry borer ...