Prior research has shown that there are large numbers of parasitoid species, many of which rely on a host to carry their eggs ...

HDOA photo Much like a science-fiction film, female Eurytomas deposit eggs inside galls ... the parasitoid wasp uses only one host to complete its development and is able to live on smaller ...

Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...

insects that attack and destroy their hosts, sometimes eating them alive. These are usually wasps, laying their own eggs inside an egg, caterpillar or pupa. Parasitoids start their lives as parasites, ...

These wasps spend their lives paralysing tarantulas, which can be much larger than them, and use them as a host for their eggs and larvae. The wasp will drag the tarantula to a specially dug hole, or ...