As the vertebrate monsters have waxed and waned, the insects have gone on mating and hatching ... vision. Eggs must also somehow escape having the eggs of another type of insect, parasitoids ...

Similarly, the egg parasitoid Telenomus podisi was studied to optimize its mass production for controlling the brown stink bug, Euschistus heros. The research indicated that using artificial diets ...

These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, caterpillar or pupa. Parasitoids start their lives as parasites ... inside them just before the tiny caterpillar is about to hatch. Broad ...

To assist their offspring in this endeavour, mother Cynipoidea wasps also squirt into the flies a mix of venom, viruses and ...

Perdue Farms, a family owned fourth-generation US food and agricultural company, has decided to incorporate the on-farm ...

Less beautiful, however, is how they provide for their offspring. These parasitoid wasps lay their eggs inside other insects. When the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae devour the host insect alive, until ...

In 1991, cricket numbers crashed as parasitoid flies (Ormia ochracea) located male calling crickets by sound and made them into live incubators for their eggs. The parasitic larvae would hatch and eat ...