In a paper published in the journal BMC Biology, paleontologists described an extinct species of koinobiont parasitoid wasp found in mid-Cretaceous amber...
Biologists at the University of Exeter have conducted the first large-scale study of the diet of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina), utilizing deep sequencing...
Syntretus perlmani infects the adult stage of fruit flies in the genus Drosophila, including one of the most deeply studied model organisms in biology,...
Predatory wasps are charged, thus emit electric fields, and that caterpillars respond to such fields with defensive behaviors, according to new research...
Hornets are the largest of the social wasps, and are important regulators of insect populations in their native ranges. These insects are also very successful...
A paleontologist from Oregon State University has found a new species of flower together with a new parasitic wasp species in a piece of amber excavated...
Meteorus stellatus inhabits primary forests of the Okinawa-hontô and Amami-ôshima Islands, subtropical Japan.
Meteorus stellatus. Image credit: S. Fujie.
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Entomologists have described a new iridescent species of the parasitoid wasp genus Dolichomitus from the Ecuadorian Andes.
Dolichomitus meii, holotype,...
An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of the cuckoo wasp genus Chrysis living in Norway.
Cuckoo wasps. Image credit: Arnstein...
A 2-m- (6.6-foot) long painting of a kangaroo in a rock shelter in the north-eastern Kimberley region of Western Australia is dated to between 17,500...
An international team of scientists from China, Taiwan and the United States has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genomes of the Chinese banyan...
Plant guttation, a fluid from xylem and phloem sap secreted at the margins of leaves from many plant species, serves as a reliable and nutrient-rich food...
The left forelimb of an anole lizard (genus Anolis) has been found perfectly preserved in a piece of Miocene-period amber from the Dominican Republic.
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Scybalium fungiforme is a little-known fungus-like plant species of the family Balanophoraceae. It has bunches of tiny pale flowers that are surrounded...
Mud wasp nests have helped establish a date for the Gwion Gwion rock art in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
A typical remnant mud wasp nest...
A team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of Polistes fuscatus, a species of paper wasp that has uniquely evolved visual individual...
An international team of paleontologists has found a piece of amber containing the beautifully preserved ammonite, several marine and land organisms that...
After performing an analysis of the antimicrobial properties of a peptide found in the venom of Polybia paulista, a species of South American social wasp,...
Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly-identified species of the parasitoid wasp genus Zatypota transforms Anelosimus eximius, one of only about 25 species...
