In most situations, parasites do not kill their hosts. An exception, however, occurs with parasitoids, which blur the line between parasitism and predation. The best-known parasitoids include ...

Parasitoids are pretty grim. There are many tens of thousands of species of them, and life for a lot of arthropods is ending up as prey for a parasitoid." ...

Eggs must also somehow escape having the eggs of another type of insect, parasitoids, laid inside of them. Parasitoid wasps and flies use their long ovipositors to thrust their eggs into the eggs ...

Rather than spraying expensive and damaging pesticides on their fields, some farmers turn to parasitoids for help. Parasitoid is the name given to insects that behave like parasites but always kill ...

Biological control involves the mass-production and release of natural enemies such as parasitoids and predators to control pest insects in an environmentally sound manner. Radiation is used to ...

As well as facing threats from hungry birds and insects, caterpillars can be devoured by parasitoids, chewed from the inside out. Dr Gavin Broad, Senior Curator of Hymenoptera, explains the gruesome ...

Alfalfa weevil larvae are already present in some fields. Older stands (or new stands planted near old ones) are priority for scouting because weevils overwinter adjacent to fields. Take these three ...

Use of floral nectar to attract 'predators' and parasitoids. As mentioned above, many insects that are classically considered predators also consume plant-provided nectar. For example, nectar ...

These insects are pretty much a no-show this season, likely due to higher populations this season of the “3 p’s”: pathogens, predators, and parasitoids, which keep fall webworm populations in check ...

It is thought that 40% of all insect species are parasitic, many of which are parasitoids, eventually killing their hosts or their young. Some are impossibly glamorous. See a cuckoo wasp ...

Herbs are desirable crops themselves, and often produce small flowers with exposed nectaries that attract and support predators and parasitoids. They also tend to be aromatic. Herbs that have been ...

Karowe's lab is looking into how the nutritional quality and defensive chemistry of plants change under elevated CO2, and how such changes affect the growth, survivorship and behavior of insect ...