Parasitic wasp turns caterpillars into head-banging bodyguards. By Ed Yong. June 3, 2008 ... Against its will, it is recruited to defend the developing young of a parasitic wasp, ...

These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, caterpillar or pupa. Parasitoids start their lives as parasites, in or on the body of a host, but they end up as predators, eating the ...

This is a story about viruses that became domesticated by parasitic wasps, which use them as biological weapons for corrupting the bodies of caterpillars, which in turn can steal the viral genes ...

Pensoft Publishers. (2020, November 4). Death from below: Parasitic wasp attacking caterpillar underwater. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 11 ...

Genetic Slaves. When parasitic wasps lay their eggs inside caterpillars, they inject a giant virus called bracovirus. Bracovirus will integrate its DNA into the caterpillar’s genome, helping to ...

A particularly gruesome example of insect zombification occurs when parasitic wasps lay their eggs inside caterpillars. The larvae chew their way through the caterpillar to spin their cocoons on ...

Dutch-Flemish research project involving provinces such as Noord-Brabant and Gelderland has concluded that natural measures ...

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M. demolitor is a parasite that lays its eggs in caterpillars, and the particles in its ovaries are “domesticated” viruses that have been tuned to persist harmlessly in wasps and serve their ...

If the caterpillar is carrying what looks like grains of white rice on its back, it is probably almost or already dead. It ...

Bodyguards have a tough and risky job but they usually get paid for their trouble. But not the caterpillar of the geometer moth. Against its will, it is recruited to defend the developing young of a ...