Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in other insects. When the larvae hatch, the juvenile wasps consume the insect for food. One class of such wasps, braconid wasps, insert bracoviruses along with their ...
John E. Woodmansee Photo: Tobacco hornworm on a tomato plant that has been attacked by a parasitic Braconid wasp. The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae ...
If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...
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Ancient, Parasitic Wasp Used Its Rear End Like a Venus Flytrap to Catch Insects and Lay Its Eggs on Them, Study SuggestsResearchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...
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