The bright yellow wasp lays a single egg inside its prey, which then feast on the host from the inside out. Scientists identified the new genus while working in Peru.

Typically when a parasitoid wasp lays eggs in fruit fly larvae or pupae, the eggs hatch and young wasps develop in their host as they mature. They eat their host from the inside, ultimately ...

Female S. perlmani use their ovipositors to deposit their eggs in the fruit fly’s abdomen, and 18 days later a larva will burst out of the side of the fly, leaving its host to die.

After drilling a small hole though the tough outer layer, they inject venom and lay 20-40 small eggs. The venom stops development in the host flies, making them a better food source for the larval ...

Female S. perlmani use their ovipositors to deposit their eggs in the fruit fly’s abdomen, and 18 days later a larva will burst out of the side of the fly, leaving its host to die.

Have you ever seen a wasp and thought, “Gee, I wonder how we can make these non-pollinating, human-hating demon insects even worse?” If so, you’re in luck. A group of scientists from the ...

After reaching the end of its in-host development period, the immature wasp emerges from the abdomen of the fly. Newsweek. A New Species Of Wasp Discovered In Mississippi Lays Its Eggs In Live ...

The beast is ten times bigger than the common wasp and lays its eggs inside the unsuspecting larvae of other insects. Once the young creatures emerge, they burrow out of the host in a grisly ...

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, according to a new study published Thursday in BMC Biology. Researchers ...

The parasitic wasp Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga, for example, lays its eggs in the spider Plesiometa argyra. The larvae then eat their way out of their host. Nor is mind control very extraordinary ...

New technique to boost egg production for genetic research on the invasive Sirex Woodwasp, offers potential pest management strategy ...

The host was likely a flying insect of a similar size to the wasp, he added. Similar, although not identical, behavior has been observed among living parasitoid wasp species.