After the Trump administration's cut to USAID, funding for agricultural research at 17 labs at U.S. universities is now ...

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 ...

Examples of parasites that manipulate the behavior ... A normally insatiable caterpillar suddenly stops eating. A quick look inside its body reveals the reason: dozens of little wasp larvae gnawing ...