Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...

Using other insects to control pests like greenfly has been a massive success story for farming, reducing the use of chemical ...

The life of the fig wasp is nature at its worst—from our human perspective, anyway. In order to lay their eggs, female fig wasps have to squeeze into the flowering body of a fig, losing their wings ...

Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re discovering we can train them ...

If you have items that can’t be dry cleaned or laundered, there are other options for ridding them of moth eggs and larvae. “A combination of sunlight and vigorously brushing the infested items” can ...

Found in swampy areas of North America, the star-nosed mole's titular appendage consists of 22 probes with 25,000 sensory ...

According to a new study published in Current Biology on Monday, Nov. 17, several species of parasitic ants have evolved a ...

Mud daubers get their name from their habit of using mud to build their nests, while most wasp species use wood pulp for nest ...

Walk through an oak stand in late summer or fall, and you’ll spot leaves dotted with neat little spheres, also known as galls ...

Worker ants have been observed attacking their own mother. A parasitic ant tricks the worker ant daughters into killing their ...

The unusual life cycle of ants reflects their social behavior, with some individuals foregoing reproduction to tend to the ...

Monarchs are heading to wintering grounds in Mexico. Save the dates for the 2026 monarch and milkweed classes with free plants and seeds.