tI’s a scene straight out of your worst nightmare: dozens of tiny, milky larvae wriggle out of their still-living caterpillar host, leaving behind the scarred, gaping holes from whence they emerged.

Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars. Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some ...

Wasps and flies inject their own eggs into a ... A study found that woolly bear caterpillars suffering from parasitic infection ate more alkaloids than their healthy counterparts. In doing so, they ...

One class of such wasps, braconid wasps, insert bracoviruses along with their eggs to suppress the host caterpillar’s immune response, which would otherwise attack the parasite’s eggs and destroy them ...

“And we had scaled up an incredibly successful tool.” The tool? A type of small, parasitic wasp that eats the caterpillars. Hughes’ lab got a grant of up to $39 million from USAID and used ...

Our gardens are home to many natural predators, from the familiar ladybugs and spiders to the less-familiar rove beetles and parasitic wasps ... fir tussock moth caterpillars, and birds prey ...