parasitic wasps

Dinocampus coccinellae is a species of parasitic wasp that focuses on adult female ladybugs. Smaller than the ladybug host, the female wasp will use her needle-like ovipositor to inject an egg into the lady beetle’s body.

Learning to identify different wasp species can be challenging, but it’s not brain surgery.Well…actually, in this case it just might be.We’re talking…

The more you learn about the insect world, you realize that the act of parasitism – where one species lives off of and feeds upon another species – is…

The deserts of the southwestern United States are home to some remarkable animals. One kind of creepy crawly often associated with this region is the…

"Giant Ichneumon Wasp," by Christine Wren."On a hot summer day a strange new insect appeared in my backyard, poking around on a Douglas-fir stump. She…