creating a suitable environment for feeding wasp larvae. Because these wasps show large shifts in their host preferences, their venom repertoires are under pressure to quickly evolve and adopt novel ...

The white capsules on its back are the pupal stage of the tiny wasp. Braconid larvae fed on the insides of this hornworm, have now completed that feeding, and are preparing to emerge as tiny wasps.

Adult wasps don’t eat the prey they kill - they feed it to their young, known as larvae. Social species capture insects, chop them up and carry parts back to the nest. Some solitary species are more ...

Only the wasps' larvae are carnivores. When tarantula hawks reach adulthood, they feed on pollen instead. Once it has stung, the wasp drags the paralysed tarantula back to its nest to be a host for ...

While adult wasps feed on nectar, the baby wasps or larvae need protein to mature and grow into adults. This protein comes from soft-bodied insects such as aphids, spiders, and caterpillars.

Caterpillars (or sawflies) feed on the needles and (with the eggs inside them) are captured by yellowjacket workers and fed to the young yellowjacket larvae in the nest. 'My' wasp larvae then wait for ...

Australia boasts around 400 species of bee fly. Bee flies feed on the nectar or pollen of many native flowering plants and so ...

An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the ...

The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...