Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

Hughey, Myra C., Nicolas, Angie, Vonesh, James R., and Warkentin, Karen M. 2012. "Wasp predation drives the assembly of fungal and fly communities on frog egg masses ...

In predation, one organism kills and consumes another. Predation provides energy to prolong the life and promote the ...

Integrated pest management methods encourage attracting and hosting beneficial insect predators that keep common pests at bay. Learn how to draw them in and keep them on the farm! While spraying ...

A tiny wasp lays its egg inside a living ladybug, but the real horror begins only after the larva crawls back out. Something ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the corporate ...

Fruit flies are generally highly susceptible to parasitic wasps, but some have stolen a gene from bacteria that makes them resistant. This adult fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has two cysts (made dark ...